Re: Need for a debian-l10n-bidi mailing list?

[anmar oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Hello Michelle:



Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello Anmar, 
<< snip >>
> Thanks and they are many people (not only friends of me) which are 
> waiting for an realy lite Debian-Systen. 

Heheh.. I know... the pressure is mounting on me every day to get that 
darn thing out :). I will have an alpha out soon I promise

> It is possibel to make a Install CD + two Floppys (resue+root) 
> to get "Arabbix" installed on very old ( :-/ ) computers ?
Not sure.. but it can not be too hard. I will add it to my todo list. 
Hopefully it will be done by the time the beta is out :)

> I mean 486/100 to PII/350. 
>
> I have many friends in Syria, but I have seen, they are working in 
> some cases with 386 !!!
Cool. I am from Syria. Aleppo (north) to be exact. Have not been there 
for 20 years :(
> In Kurdistan, Iraq and Syria I had installed Deebian/Slink for some 
> years on 486... and they are working today with it !!!
>
>
> > The next release of arabbix will have XFCE4 installed so you can boot 
>
>
> I have already seen, it is full translated to arab.

Great. than we can just add it to Arabbix with no major localization 
effor then :)

> > into it instead of GNOME or KDE. XFCE4 is a very nice desktop 
> > environment that gives you the basics with out too much load on the 
> > system. Check it out at xfce.org.
>
>
> I know already.
>
>
> > There is some Arabic localisation work that was done on XFCE4 but it is 
> > not complete. If you are interested, I would gladely start a new 
> > translation project on arabeyes.org so you can finish the translation ( 
> > of course after talking to the original translator :)).
> >
> > Let me know.
>
>
> Curently I am learning arab :-)

I am happy you are learning the language. It is both powerful and 
beutiful. BTW, just a reminder, you should call the language ARABIC and 
not Arab ;). Arab is the person who speaks arabic.

> But in some month (if all goes fine with my migration papers) I 
> go to Marocco and create a CyberCenter (InternetCafe, Informatic 
> Formation Center for Women, ISP and maybe a Foyer) in Marrakech. 

Whoo... that is great. I wish you the best of luck and hopefully Arabbix 
 will help out in that as much as possible :)

> Of cause, all powered by Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> And tthen, I am already subscribed at "general" on arabeyes.org.
> I think, it is a must !
>
> Greetings
> Michelle

Salam

Anmar