Hello, every one.. After the announcement by Red Hat that their low-end distribution will be more in the open source spirit, wouldn't it be more useful if we contact them and offer to help in arabicization (localization to Arabic). I have used Red Hat for some time and I know that many people use Red Hat so they will welcome Red Hat support for Arabic (not to belittle Mandrake or Hayder Linux, and I am not that sure of the situation in Debian). I have some experience of Red Hat Linux (6.2 to 9), relatively good C programming with little perl, some python, and some network administration experience and no much use of cvs. And I am a newbie at Arabeyes. So I suggest that some one experienced be the coordinator and I will support him as much as I can (may be the good folks who supported Mandrake?). If no other person volunteers, and if no body tells me this is a bad idea (and why). I will give up and try to coordinate this myself as a project under arabeyes if possible (soo bad;). As for the situation in Red Hat Linux as far as I know: As a policy, Redhat does not distribute very new packages, so it will take some time before OpenOffice 1.1 will get into the distribution. The same goes for the last versions of KDE,GNOME etc.. Red Hat usually does a repackaging of KDE and GNOME which changes many things to satisfy users. As they are not especially keen for Arabic users, the support in these packages usually gets lost or at least hidden somewhere. I am actually now using Red Hat 8 with some Arabic working (actually Red Hat 8 with KDE 3.1.2 and OpenOffice 1.1 Beta2 installed). Some of us will need more packages, at least a newer Vim maybe.. Any Suggestions? -- Muhammad Abdulmuneim Alkarouri Teaching Assistant Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Architecture University of Khartoum Khartoum, Sudan
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