Re: Ubuntu Muslim Edition

[Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn at diwi dot org>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, jmehdi at ubuntume dot com wrote:
>    Salam alaykoum,

Salam!

>    I'm glad to announce the release of the first version of Ubuntu Muslim
>    Edition (www.ubuntuME.com[1]), alHamdulillah. You can download it here[2].
>    The UbuntuME project has just started ; feel free to post
>    comments/ideas/contributions in the forums.[3]

I am glad to hear that! And especially that you are using a Debian-based
distribution for your work. Well, I would have preferred Debian
directly, but chosing Ubuntu is already great ;-)

>    I'm working on the next step of the project: pre-installing arabic
>    fonts/tools etc. I want the process of installing UbuntuME in arabic easy
>    for the end-user. I need to know what packages/softwares/tools I need to
>    install... (I ask you that because I'm not an Arabic-speaking person)

Here I need *your* help!

On Debian, and all the Debian-based distros, we use a tool called
Tasksel. It is a way to customise, at installation-time, the
distribution you want to install.

Currently, we have an Arabic and an Arabic-desktop task, which I am in
charge of maintaining.

That's a list of Debian packages that should be installed by default
when we want to install an Arabic distribution. And this is the *clean*
way to do it, in Debian *and* Ubuntu.

Why do I need your help? Because I would like to add the same data you
are collecting to complete the current list I have for tasksel.

See http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/tasksel/trunk/tasks/arabic?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

  xfonts-intl-arabic
  ttf-arabeyes
  aspell-ar
  itools

and http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/tasksel/trunk/tasks/arabic-desktop?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

  ttf-kacst
  ttf-farsiweb
  kde-i18n-ar
  iceweasel-l10n-ar

I am also planning to add minbar, but it is still in experimental.

Moreover, you seem to have packaging skills. These are needed in
Arabeyes and I would be glad to help you improve these skills and help
you integrate your work in our project (if you want to do it).

Do not hesitate to come on #arabeyes at irc.freenode.net .

Some months ago, someone suggested to build an Arabic Ubuntu-based
distro but nothing happened so far. You did it yourself and I am happy
to hear that. Please let us hear even more happy things from you in the
following days and weeks.

-- 
Mohammed Adnène Trojette