Re: some general points

["Ahmad Twaijry" <msx at hush dot com>]

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I have too many feedbak for Anmar (Form Gitex visitors) I will send it
to him (and to the group) insh'a  Allah tomorrow.



On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:22:54 -0700 Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
wrote:
>--- 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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