RE: The Red Hat Project?

["Ossama Khayaat" <ossamak at nht dot com dot kw>]

I guess for now, I can help with the BETA testing only.
I'll try to download the ISOs at home today and install the version on my home, work and laptop PCs so I try it on different configurations as possible.

Regards,
Ossama Khayat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Muhammad Alkarouri [mailto:karouri at uofk dot edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:53 AM
> To: Development Discussions
> Subject: Re: The Red Hat Project?
> 
> The story so far:
> Red Hat Linux is a much used Linux that does not have Arabic support.
> Various people are interested to make this happen, as mentioned in
> http://www.linux-egypt.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1617
> and the feed back in this thread.
> A project is set up in sourceforge at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/redhat-arabic/ , led by Mohamed
> Eldesoky, for the purpose.
> It is even mention (in the thread above) that there is support for this
> from within Red Hat itself. So sthings are encouraging.
> 
> The technical aspects:
> The next Red Hat Linux version is 10, codenamed severn). Its beta is
> already out, and it's due October. The packages used should have
> relatively good support of Arabic (I didn't test yet). Examples are:
> * KDE version 3.1.2 ( kde-i18n-Arabic-3.1.2-4.noarch.rpm included).
> * GNOME 2.2.0
> * vi 6.2.18 (should support Arabic IIRC)
> * fonts-arabic-1.3-1.noarch.rpm
> So good Arabic support can be expected, with a little push.
> What is needed in my opinion (well, Mohammed Sameer's opinion somewhat
> altered;) is:
> 1. Arabic support for the Linux console
> 2. Good Arabic fonts
> 3. The ability to read and write Arabic in KDE and GNOME (may be other
> window managers later).
> 
> This can be be done by (in my opinion):
> 1. Packaging akka satisfactorily enough for Red Hat to include in their
> distro. (they have Canna for Japanese, so the concept isn't new).
> 2. Beta testing for severn and strongly requesting including full Arabic
> support already available in KDE and Gnome, reporting any bugs.
> 3. Ditto (the same) for vi and may be other packages (tetex?)
> 4. Checking that the Red Hat package redhat-configure-language works
> well with Arabic (it didn't till rh9), and may be helping in making it
> do so.
> 5. Checking anaconda (the red hat installer) for good configuration of
> Arabic at startup.
> 6. Encourage the redhat project to upgrade openoffice to 1.1 (which I
> think they would do if they got a 1.1 version not beta,RC).
> 
> I would like to have as much suggestions on these as possible on the
> following couple of days, and I would like to encourage as much people
> as possible to beat test severn (including myself)..
> 
> Oh, and by the way, what I would do is:
> - join the redhat-arabic project at source forge (hope it's working,
> they have 0% activity now) and may be encourage some coordination with
> arabeyes
> - for the current days pursue akka working and packaging
> - have a weekly update for this mailing list on the situation so far, if
> you encouraged me to do so
> - beta test severn
> 
> Note that we have a window of 1.5 months or so for all actions regarding
> severn, but I think it should be enough for most things if we have
> enough beta testers
> 
> Please, feedback
> k
> --
> 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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