On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:47:43AM +0300, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have bought the money and waiting for the activation of the account. > > On Friday 15 August 2003 4:42 pm, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote: > > While joining the mandrake club and voting is certainly a way to support > > arabization, it is not that scalable as I don't there are many of us who > > would buy a membership for that. > You are right but I hope even one can do something because I have votes every > week or something. If I kept voting for one year (how many weeks?) I think I > can do something at least in the next release. > > > A better solution, IMHO, is to coordinate with the arabic team for > > internationalization in mandrake, I hope they will push things better, > > and any testing/developing can be helped by arabeyes members. > > A page explaining the situation with the Mandrake distro should be a > > welcome addition to the distro project in arabeyes. Nadim was already > > asking if there are people who would volunteer for other distros. > Ok then I would be happy to volunteer for Mandrake if Nadim and others accept > this. I will be happy to follow your steps then though I think the task for > me would be easier than your case ;) > > > > Even if the packages did not catch the freeze date, they can be packaged > > for the distro and put in a single repository. For mandrake, I believe > > you can make a single http repository and add it to urpmi for these > > packages. At least I was having such a thought for redhat (making a apt > > or yum repository). Think of it.. > > Yes, urpmi - but I am looking for support out of the box for newbies. > I don't think that only 1 will help. But we should try. I love mandrake, I try to support it. But i'm currently using Debian. that's why i can't give much support. If anyone can follow the installer and Arabic thing, and discover why they removed arabic from the supported languages in the draktools update. This'll be good. -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast "Brian Kernighan". -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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