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

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!

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.

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

منارات Manarat: the code name of Sabily 10.04

Assalamo alaykom,

Sabily team is proud to announce the code name of Sabily 10.04: Manarat منارات

Manarat is the plural of the Arabic word Manara which mean in English and other languages Minaret: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret

Welcome Sabily Manarat :)

Sabily 9.10 (Gaza) released

Bismilleh walhamdolilleh wassaleto wasselemo ala rasolilleh,

The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of Sabily 9.10, codename "Gaza". Sabily is the new name of Ubuntu Muslim Edition, the Operating System designed by and for Muslims (but non-Muslims are very welcome to use it too ).
Sabily 9.10 is available as a Live DVD (so you can test it without installing anything on your computer), with 2 versions:

• Small version (1 GB): contains the main Sabily packages (artwork, islamic applications) and Arabic support
• Full version (2.8 GB): same as above plus multimedia, education and miscellaneous packages, besides offline Quran recitations provided by www.versebyversequran.com: Muhammad Siddeeq al-Minshawi, Huzify, Sa’ad al-Ghamadi and Mishary Rashed Alafasy
  Note: the offline recitations are useful if you are not connected to the Internet (all Sabily versions provide online recitations)

What's new in this release:

• "Noor" application: new Quran Browser
• Sample books for Thwab
• "Fsool" application: the Sira of The prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him)
  
• "Rejaal" application: Men around the prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him)..a flash bibliography of 60 Sahabi
• "Arabeyes Qamoos": Arabic-English dictionary
  

Note: the three last software exist only on the full version

What's changed:

• New theme (grub image + xsplash...)
  
• New structure of "Islamic Software"
• Monajat is re-developed in Python

Main features:

• Parental control tool installed (WebStrict)
  
• Zekr (Quran study tool), able to play Quran recitations
• Prayer times apps: Minbar and Firefox 'Pray Times' add-on
  
• Thwab (encyclopaedia)
  
• Custom artwork: usplash, login screen, Islamic wallpapers and theme.
  
• Full support for Arabic language.
  
• The full version of the DVD contains multimedia, scientific, educational and many other useful software

Download Sabily 9.10 (Gaza) here:

• DVD small version:
• MD5: 96caf1c0fdb0cc41e9f6fe5d721a21cd
• Packages installed on the DVD: sabily main software + Arabic support
• Download link (Wuala): http://content.wuala.com/contents/Abdelmonam/Sabily/ISOs/9.10/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_small_version.iso
• Download link (HTTP mirror 1): http://www.sabily.org/download/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_small_version.iso
  
• Download link (HTTP mirror 2): http://www.ojuba.org/sabily/downloads/9.10/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_small_version.iso
• Download link (HTTP mirror 3): http://sabily.zouaghi.net/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_small_version.iso
• Torrent: http://sabily.zouaghi.net/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_small_version.iso.torrent
  
• DVD full version:
• MD5: 159755bf5b4cf6b9e602870961cc52f6
• Packages installed on the DVD: sabily main softwares + Arabic support + multimedia + education + miscellaneous + offline Quran recitations (useful when you are not connected to the Internet)
• Download link (Wuala): http://content.wuala.com/contents/Abdelmonam/Sabily/ISOs/9.10/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_full_version.iso
• Download link (HTTP mirror 1): http://www.sabily.org/download/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_full_version.iso 
• Download link (HTTP mirror 2): http://www.ojuba.org/sabily/downloads/9.10/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_full_version.iso
• Download link (HTTP mirror 3- DVD full version split into two parts - Part1): http://sabily.zouaghi.net/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_full_version.iso.part1.rar
• Download link (HTTP mirror 3- DVD full version split into two parts - Part2): http://sabily.zouaghi.net/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_full_version.iso.part2.rar
• Torrent: http://sabily.zouaghi.net/sabily_9.10_gaza_desktop_full_version.iso.torrent

Sabily 9.10 (Gaza release) alpha2 is here!

Alhamdolilleh,

You can download now the iso file of Sabily 9.10 (Gaza release) alpha2 from here:
http://content.wuala.com/contents/Abdelmonam/Sabily/ISOs/9.10/sabily-gaza-9.10-alpha2.iso

You can verify if the downloaded iso is not corrupted using the checksum and this is the result of the origin iso:
http://content.wuala.com/contents/Abdelmonam/Sabily/ISOs/9.10/sabily-gaza-9.10-alpha2.iso.md5

Here a video cast of this release...

Please test it and report your remarks and suggestions :)

Sabily Gaza foretaste

Bismilleh Arrahmen Arrahim

Assalamo alaykom,

This video is the foretaste of Sabily 9.10 (Gaza release) tested on VirtualBox, the iso is ready for download now, see here
Enjoy it :)
Any remarks or suggestions are more than welcome ;)

To contribute in the Sabily project please join this team: https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team

Sabily 9.10 (Gaza release) foretaste from Sabily channel on Vimeo.

Here the source of the video if you want to download it and/or share it:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/SabilyGazaAlpha2.ogv
and here another link:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Abdelmonam?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=SabilyGazaAlpha2.ogv


And here a screenshot of the desktop of Sabily Gaza life CD running on qemu:


Assalamo alaykom...

Eid Mubarak for Muslims worldwide from Sabily team

Assalamo alaykom wa rahmato Allah wa baraketoh,

Eid Mubarak for Muslims worldwide from Sabily team

May the Guidence and Blessing of Allah
Be with You and Your family...

This is Eid Al Idhha wishes and the invitation for the next release
having as code name Gaza
I ask you to add it to your blogs with a link to Sabily
web site to help spreading Sabily...