Re: some general points

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Moustafa Elqabbany <elqabbany at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> I should also mention my basic needs in terms of Arabic computing: I want to
> be able to view and compose well-formatted Arabic text for the web and email.
> So far, I have not been able to do this with Linux, and have therefore been
> using Windows XP.  (If any kind person wants to point me to a faq on how to
> do this, it would be much appreciated.)  I am not really interested in an
> Arabic UI, since English is easier and more familiar for me.  

What about emacs-bidi and/or vim and/or mined and mutt and mlterm, etc
doesn't suite you ?  Can you be more specific ?  What did you have in mind ?

> Now comes the criticism:

I think you mean to replace 'criticism' with 'feedback' :-)

> I tried out Arabbix 0.8 and I'm not terribly impressed.  It failed on 2 of
> the three computers I tried it on.  (I specialize in cheap hardware. :))  One
> of the computers it failed on (with a kernel panic one time and just hung the
> other time) runs XP perfectly and is a run of the mill Pentium-based system
> with an IDE drive.  The other is an old Acer extensa 390 laptop running
> Redhat 6 smoothly.  Arabbix just hung on it.  Arabbix did work on my C3
> Gigapro.  However, Mozilla was very flaky and the fonts were just plain ugly.
>  
> I can provide more details to anyone interested.

Once Anmar is back from his vacation I'm sure he would love to hear from
you with more detail and more suggestions.  In terms of hardware issues
(ie. your 2 machines failing), you ought to check with the morphix.org
page for help.  I would also highly suggest you mail the morphix people
with details on the failures as the failures have nothing to do with the
Arabic content and the extra applications bundled.  Do please follow-up
once you contact them.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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