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Arabbic Update



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