I guess for now, I can help with the BETA testing only. I'll try to download the ISOs at home today and install the version on my home, work and laptop PCs so I try it on different configurations as possible.
Regards, Ossama Khayat > -----Original Message----- > From: Muhammad Alkarouri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:53 AM > To: Development Discussions > Subject: Re: The Red Hat Project? > > The story so far: > Red Hat Linux is a much used Linux that does not have Arabic support. > Various people are interested to make this happen, as mentioned in > http://www.linux-egypt.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1617 > and the feed back in this thread. > A project is set up in sourceforge at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/redhat-arabic/ , led by Mohamed > Eldesoky, for the purpose. > It is even mention (in the thread above) that there is support for this > from within Red Hat itself. So sthings are encouraging. > > The technical aspects: > The next Red Hat Linux version is 10, codenamed severn). Its beta is > already out, and it's due October. The packages used should have > relatively good support of Arabic (I didn't test yet). Examples are: > * KDE version 3.1.2 ( kde-i18n-Arabic-3.1.2-4.noarch.rpm included). > * GNOME 2.2.0 > * vi 6.2.18 (should support Arabic IIRC) > * fonts-arabic-1.3-1.noarch.rpm > So good Arabic support can be expected, with a little push. > What is needed in my opinion (well, Mohammed Sameer's opinion somewhat > altered;) is: > 1. Arabic support for the Linux console > 2. Good Arabic fonts > 3. The ability to read and write Arabic in KDE and GNOME (may be other > window managers later). > > This can be be done by (in my opinion): > 1. Packaging akka satisfactorily enough for Red Hat to include in their > distro. (they have Canna for Japanese, so the concept isn't new). > 2. Beta testing for severn and strongly requesting including full Arabic > support already available in KDE and Gnome, reporting any bugs. > 3. Ditto (the same) for vi and may be other packages (tetex?) > 4. Checking that the Red Hat package redhat-configure-language works > well with Arabic (it didn't till rh9), and may be helping in making it > do so. > 5. Checking anaconda (the red hat installer) for good configuration of > Arabic at startup. > 6. Encourage the redhat project to upgrade openoffice to 1.1 (which I > think they would do if they got a 1.1 version not beta,RC). > > I would like to have as much suggestions on these as possible on the > following couple of days, and I would like to encourage as much people > as possible to beat test severn (including myself).. > > Oh, and by the way, what I would do is: > - join the redhat-arabic project at source forge (hope it's working, > they have 0% activity now) and may be encourage some coordination with > arabeyes > - for the current days pursue akka working and packaging > - have a weekly update for this mailing list on the situation so far, if > you encouraged me to do so > - beta test severn > > Note that we have a window of 1.5 months or so for all actions regarding > severn, but I think it should be enough for most things if we have > enough beta testers > > Please, feedback > k > -- > Muhammad Abdulmuneim Alkarouri > Teaching Assistant > Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering > Faculty of Engineering and Architecture > University of Khartoum > Khartoum, Sudan > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.504 / Virus Database: 302 - Release Date: 7/24/2003 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.504 / Virus Database: 302 - Release Date: 7/24/2003 _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
