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Re: Arabbix Project Update



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Salam

About the size:

if anyone can download 400M then he can download 700M :)

what I want to say , I hope you install all the good programa and don't
care about the size (is long as it fit on one CD)



On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:51:31 -0700 Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com> wrote:
>Greetings Earthlings:
>
>Well after downloading a few gigs of ISO's from GNOPPIX, KNOPPIX,
> and
>MORPHIX I decided to base all future developement work on MORPHIX
>>
>(morphix.sf.net).
>
>Before I explain why I chose MORPHIX, here is my criteria I used
>to
>evaluate each of the CDs:
>
>1. Must support GNOME since we have full Arabic localisation (thanks
>>
>GNOME team). KDE Arabisation is not complete yet. (that takes KNOPPIX
>>
>out of the picture)
>
>2. Make the size as small as possible. Although we are going to
>>
>distribute these CDs (If we find a sponsor), people want to download
>it
>so we should be concious of that.
>
>3. Easy to localize (based on a well built distribution) Debian
>>
>preferrably ;)
>
>4. Easy to install on hard disk. (some people might like what they
>see
>and decide to use linux as a full time OS)
>
>5. Easy to further improve and extend
>
>6. Easy to customize with Arabeyes.org logos and colours.
>
>7. Must fit on one CD
>
>8. Must have an active community of developers for future enhancements
>>
>and support
>
>Here are the reasons why i have decided to use MORPHIX:
>
>1. It is modular so we can bunch our entire Arabization effort in
>one
>module instead of mucking with the whole distribution.
>
>2. relatively smallish . Knoppix is close to 700 MB . MORPHIX is
>440 MB
>
>3. Although localization docs are not present, the mailing lists
>are
>plenty helpful and the people are quite nice. All of the Live-CD's
>i
>have examined are based on Debian (whooo :))
>
>4. MORPHIX comes with a GTK2 tool that installs the entire CD on
>the
>hard disk of choice (non of the examined Live-CDs have that). The
>tool
>can be easily localized to Arabic so users can install the entire
>OS on
>their Hard disk and use a fully localized linux-based OS
>
>5. The community is active and willing. That says alot about the
>future
>of this live-CD :)
>
>Other than the mentioned points above, all Live-CDs are equal.
>
>Let me know what you think.
>
>Anmar
>
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>
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