Sabily Uhud (11.10) released!

Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim,
Assalamo alaykom,
The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 11.10, codename "Uhud".
You can download it here: link

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What's new:
- New "Uhud" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
- Hijra: Better support for Gnome3; added Gnome shell extension
- Thawab: Added support for configurable themes, added bok2ki script
- Monajat: Prayer times reminder & azan player
- fonts-hosny-amiri: Arabic Naskh style typographically oriented font

New applications:
- Alfanous: Quranic search engine
- gnome-shell-extension-islamic-datetime: GNOME Shell extension providing Islamic date/time functions
- gnome-tweak-tool: a tool to customize advanced GNOME 3 options

New from Ubuntu 11.10:
-  Linux kernel 3.0
- Default email client is Thunderbird instead of Evolution
- Gnome3
- Déjà Dup backup system included in the standard installation
- Login manager is lightdm instead of gdm
- Gwibber has a new interface using the most recent GNOME technologies.

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And still "nanny", parental web control application
"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

You have already installed Ubuntu 11.10 ? You can just transform it to Sabily...Follow this link :
http://www.sabily.org/wiki/index.php/Convert_a_standard_Ubuntu_installation_to_Sabily

Sabily Badr (11.04) released!

Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim,
Assalamo alaykom,
The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 11.04, codename "Badr".
You can download it here: link

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What's new:
- New "Badr" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
- unity and unity 2D available on the DVD, but ubuntu classic (gnome 2) set by default
- new Firefox persona

New applications:
- islamic-date: extension for the Iceweasel/Firefox web browser that displays Hijri date
- zakat-calc: Sabily Zakat provides zakat calculations for Muslims
- gufw: easy to use Ubuntu Firefwall
- desktopnova (replacing wallpaper-tray)
- autoKey: to avoid typing frequently encountered words
- recordmydesktop: record desktop sessions to a video file (Ogg-Theora-Vorbis file)
- anki: extensible flashcard learning program

New from Ubuntu 11.04:
- Unity desktop
- Firefox 4
- LibreOffice (replacing OpenOffice)
- Banshee (replacing Rhythmbox)
- Linux Kernel 2.6.38 (with the "wonder 200 lines" patch now included by default)

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And still "nanny", parental web control application
"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

First international meeting of Sabily administration team :)

Assalamu alaykum,

Last week I was in France for a job mission and I profited of my being there to contact brother Mehdi (the admin of Sabily project) in direct for the first time from 4 years (the date on which I have known Mehdi, just a couple of weeks after he started Sabily project).
It was a pleasure to see him and to talk to him in real world (not in virtual world as we do always), also it was a pleasure to see his family especially his very nice son "Elyess" :)
I was very busy so I stayed with them only 15 minutes ^^" we didn't discussed a lot of subjects, just the deal was around family, Tunisian revolution, my travel to France..but we didn't left the occasion without talking about Sabily :D in this subject we talked about the idea of building a foundation around Sabily project..an international organisation that support and manage Sabily project in a professional manner! we did not developed the idea because the time was very short, also it need a lot of reflexion about objectives, roadmap, and especially sponsoring! we decide to continue the discussion online :)
I am not sure..but most probably that I will have another travel to Egypt in the next few weeks insha'Allah and so I can see brother Ahmed Almahmoudi and other brothers from Egypt :) I am not sure for the moment about that..but I hope it happen insha'Allah :D

Hereafter some photos, here my photo in the "La Defence" city:

And here with Mehdi:

And here with Mehdi's son:

Assalamo alaykom

Sabily - "Ubuntu Muslim Remix"

The Sabily team received today a message from Mark Shuttleworth, kindly allowing us to use the Ubuntu trademark:
"[...] Canonical is happy for you to use the Ubuntu trademark as part of the phrase "Ubuntu Muslim Remix", or "Ubuntu Islamic Remix", and if you wish to prefix that with Sabily that's fine too!
If you do use the name Ubuntu, we would ask that you follow the Ubuntu Code of Conduct in your community too. [...]"
Thank you Mark (and Canonical)!
We hope we could all together spread the use of Linux and Open Source software through Ubuntu and Sabily for Muslims and  for the whole of humanity!

Sabily Sharing Services - Text sharing

 

Sabily Sharing Services provides now a pastebin-like service, where you can store and share large amount of texts:
http://sabi.ly/Share/Paste.aspx

Different syntaxes are available, here is an example of a C# formatted text:
http://sabi.ly/Share/PasteView.aspx?id=7PT

As usual, please report any bugs or suggests new features: contact us

Sabily Sharing Services

The Sabily Team is proud to announce the release of the Sabily Sharing Services website: http://share.sabily.org

This new website provides file sharing services; you can host temporarily private files to share with your friends, up to 100MB, with automatic antivirus scanning! So, people who will receive your download links will know if the files are safe or not.
Here is an example of a file considered as a virus (the file itself is safe, it's just for testing purpose): antivirus example
The next step will be to provide public files hosting, with rating & comments features, search engine, moderation (eg, to disallow haram pictures) etc., InshaAllah.
If you find bugs, or want to make suggestions, please contact us!

Eid Mubarak from Sabily team

Eid Mubarak!

عيد مبارك وتقبّل الله منا ومنكم

 

 

DVD cover for Al-Quds

Great thanks for brother Muslih the author of this work, Jazahollah khayran:

Sabily 10.10 Al Quds released!

Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim,
Assalamo alaykom,
The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 10.10, codename Al-Quds.
You can download it here: link

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What's new:
- New "Al-Quds" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
- New screensaver pictures
- New Sabily logo
- Zekr 1.0.0
- New software: Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine

New from Ubuntu 10.10:
- New Ubuntu Software Center
- Installer: The Ubiquity Installer has been redesigned to be easier to use as well as to install drivers and download updates during installation.
- Gnome 2.32
- Evolution 2.30, much faster
- Shotwell has replaced F-Spot as the default photo manager

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And still "nanny", parental web control application
"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

A wallpaper for Sabily

Sabily 10.10 - Al Quds, beta version

Bismillah Arrahmen Arraheem,

Here is Sabily 10.10 - Al Quds, beta version:

http://88.191.122.107/Sabily/10.10/beta/sabily-10.10-desktop-i386-beta.iso
http://content.wuala.com/contents/jmehdi/DVD%20ISO%20files/10.10/beta/sabily-10.10-desktop-i386-beta.iso?dl=1

Please test it asap and report any bug or suggestion!

wa salam

Sabily pages on wikipedia need updates + translation into other languages

Assalamo alaykom,

Hereafter English Sabily page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabily and via it you can access other languages pages.
As you can see it need updates (logo, brand, contents, links...), other languages pages are poor in term of content they should been ameliorated, also we need to improve them by new translation into other languages (even a part of the page not the whole contents).
Please participate in this effort, that don't need any programming skills, just a redaction skills ;)
You can join one or both of the following teams:
Sabily Redaction Team: https://launchpad.net/~sabily-redaction-team
Sabily Translators: https://launchpad.net/~sabily-translators

The members of these teams should be also more active in this subject.

Sabily 10.10, "Al-Quds", release date & countdown

Bismillah Arrahmen Arraheem,

Sabily 10.10, codename "Al-Quds", will be released on November 1st, InshaAllah.

Thanks to brother Muslih, we have 4 countdown themes you can use on your  websites, blogs, forum signatures etc., see details here:
http://sabily-guru.blogspot.com/2010/10/sabily-al-quds-countdown.html

Please help us spreading Sabily!

wa salam

Sabily Al-Quds countdown

Thanks to brother Muslih, we have 4 countdown themes for sabily 10.10 release:

theme 1	theme 2
theme 3	theme 4

To put these images on your websites, logs, forum signatures etc. just use the following URL: http://88.191.122.107/Sabily.Countdown/Countdown.aspx?release=10.10&theme=1
For example, to use it in a forum signature:
[img]http://88.191.122.107/Sabily.Countdown/Countdown.aspx?release=10.10&theme=1[/img]

You can set the "theme" parameter to 1, 2, 3 or 4.
Help us spreading Sabily!

New Sabily logo and brand

Bismilleh walhamdolilleh wassaleto wassalemo ala rasol Alleh,,

Assalamo alaykom,

Sabily team is proud to announce the new design of Sabily logo and Sabily brand:

The new logo:

The new brand:

Alhamdolilleh who helped us to finish this work that we hope that it will be successful, and a great thanks to our brother Muslih Al-Aqqad the author of this work for his efforts jazaho Allah khayran.

Be free to spread these new logo and brand on your blgos, websites, forums and social networks.

Inshalla as soon as possible we will update Sabily web site and Sabily theme with these modifications.

Assalamo alaykom

Changing Sabily logo

Assalamo alaykom,

After a precedent poll about changing Sabily logo, the decision was taken to change it.
Now we have two propositions done by our brother Muslih Al-Aqqad jazaho Allah khayran.
Hereafter the poll link: http://www.doodle.com/x98h8ac7ysv2xypb please participate as soon as you can, we should make our choice in three days insha'Allah so we can move to other thinks in term of design.

Eid Mubarak from Sabily team

Eid Mubarak from Sabily team
Takabbala Allah minna wa minkom...

Thanks a lot for our brother Muslih Ferecov (مصلح العقاد)
for this design :)

Ramadan Mubarak from Sabily team

After few days Ramadan 1431 will begin inshalla, for this occasion Sabily team wish you Ramadan Mubarak :)
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guide us to the right path, and accept our fasting and prayers.

Remark: the above picture is a derivative work from this original file: http://baherraouf.deviantart.com/art/Poster-for-ramadan-64076694

Manarat DVD & Box covers

Assalamo alaykom,

Alhamdolilleh, our brother Muslih has released a new DVD covers for Sabily Manarat, he has released three theme so you can choose what you want, each theme is composed from a DVD cover and a box cover.
Following the work of our brother Muslih, you can use it for free and pass it to others..the same thing for Sabily DVDs:

--- First Theme (the one I liked most ;) )

--- Second Theme

--- Third Theme

Enjoy them..and jaza Allah khayran our brother Muslih Al Aqqad for his great work...

Sabily 10.04 (Manarat) released

Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim,
Assalamo alaykom,
The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of new version of Sabily 10.04, codename Manarat.
You can download it here: link

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What's new:
- New "Manarat" pictures and wallpapers
- Zekr 0.7.6
- Thawab 3
- New offline recitation: Al-Muaiqly (48kbps)
- New parental web control application: nanny

New from Ubuntu 10.04:
- new look (new theme, window management buttons on the left)
- better interaction with social networks (built-in integration with Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook, and other social networks with the MeMenu in the panel)
- 2.6.32 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.30
- improved support for nVidia proprietary graphics drivers
- removal of the previously deprecated HAL package (faster boot)
- OpenOffice.org office suite 3.2 (now branded as Oracle)
- Firefox 3.6.3
- Simple Scan, a new simple scanning application.
- PiTiVi movie editor, which can trim and combine clips, add transitions and so on.

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"nanny", parental web control application
"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

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Hereafter some screenshots:

 Manarat login screen

Manarat desktop

Manarat new Islamic menu

Some Islamic software: Hijra & Minbar

Some Islamic software: new version of Zekr