Salam All, I am Nayef Abu Ebaid, I work with Ammar, I can help if you need any help. my desktop at both home and work is Ubuntu. so it is my pleasure to help.
Regards, Nayef Mobile: 0777487205 Kefah Issa wrote: > Salam All, > > It was a wonderful meeting today... I am really excited about this > event, and hope it would turn as wonderful as we wish to. > > One request that I wish who ever can fullfill to do so ... > a request that will surely make a difference ... > > PLEASE SHOW UP! > > We need every help possible, even if it is for only two or three hours > during the event. > > We need you to help and guide visitors and to show them all whats good > about linux. > > For now I leave you with this photo from the event hall taken couple > of hours ago. > > Regards, > - Kefah. > > > > Even if it is for > > On 12/26/07, Kefah Issa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Salam Moayyad, >> >> Wonderful email, many thanks. >> >> Unfortunately its only you and Jad who seem to have good ubuntu experience. >> >> I will be preparing the similar for Fedora. >> >> If you like, you can pass by freesoft on friday and use the internet >> to complete your preparations. >> >> Regards, >> - Kefah. >> >> On 12/26/07, moayyad sadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I suppose we are going to distribute Ubuntu >>> >>> there are two kinds of people >>> those who classify people into two kinds and those who don't, >>> just kidding! people who have xDSL Internet connection and those who don't >>> >>> for the first kind of people we should show them >>> who to use synaptic >>> how to use add/remove menu item from applications menu (main menu in >>> >> Gnome) >> >>> how to show extra application, which are not supported directly by >>> ubuntu, restricted drivers >>> how to add medibuntu.org repository and their GPG >>> from GUI or through the following two commands >>> # sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O >>> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list >>> Then, add the GPG Key: >>> # wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo >>> apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update >>> >>> tell them about the sites like http://help.ubuntu.com/ >>> http://ubuntuforums.org >>> ubuntuME google group ..etc. >>> >>> tell them the name and the function of main software >>> Drivers: >>> nVidia (glx-new, glx, legendary) >>> ATI >>> Themes and Desktop candies: >>> SphereCrystal and/or nuvola >>> cursers >>> gdesklets >>> do any one know about multimedia hotkeys >>> GL Desktop: >>> all compiz related, gnome-compiz-manager or something like that >>> >>> Wine: >>> wine and we tell them how to configure it >>> (what is the new name for winex, I don't suggest it, I suggest wine) >>> >>> Multimedia: >>> Gnome baker (DVD/CD RW) >>> Gnome CD Master (CD RW) >>> gst plugins: ugly ffmpeg pitfdll (and the codecs) and maybe nonlinear >>> xine or gxine >>> mplayer >>> flash # player >>> realplayer >>> Graphics: >>> Inkscape >>> Blender >>> fontforge >>> >>> Multimedia Advanced Editors: >>> EasyTAG, >>> ubuntu-studio >>> Subtitleeditor, >>> Avidemux, DeVeDe, DVD::rip, sweep, audacity,..etc. >>> (mencoder and transcode will be installed by dependency) >>> ...etc. >>> >>> Games (no GL): >>> frozenbubbles, super tux, (a must) >>> solarwolf, heroes, pingus, (good games) >>> enigma, atomix, (good puzzles) >>> freecraft (a must for strategy lovers) >>> abuse (platform jump, shooting ..etc. ) >>> barrage (becomes boring later) >>> Games (needs GL): >>> tuxracer (a must, but what's its new name ?) >>> Armegatron or GlTron (same, I suggest the first) >>> FooBillard or Billard GL (same idea, I suggest the first) >>> Gl117 (I don't love this kind of games but some do, it's a) >>> Crack Attack, Chromium, GNUbik puzzle (not good looking but they are >>> good time killing) >>> Trackballs or both [neverball and neverputt] (I suggest the later two) >>> ############# >>> # I did not try those below but they seems good, you choose >>> Alien Arena, Open Arena, Enimylines7, >>> WarZone 2100 (for strategy lovers) >>> Torcs or Trigger >>> 3D RPG games: (I consider them all pooring but anyway) >>> Egoboo >>> Arkrpg and some of its games >>> Chess (with GL): >>> add the 3D support to the already installed glchess (I don't know the >>> package name) >>> maybe dream chess but any one use synaptic to search for chess >>> Dos Emu and Doom: >>> Dosbox (we tell them how to make it fast) >>> lxdoom (or any other doom, and we tell them where to put the .WAD) >>> >>> Qemu: Qemu and its kernel module (only for advanced people) >>> and we tell them about pcsx (I tried it and it works for me) >>> and at last >>> Development basic and basic docs: >>> missing info pages >>> gtk2+devel ..etc. (other by dependency) >>> Development advanced: >>> anjuta (or whatever, I don't use IDEs) >>> Servers: >>> mysql, apache2, hdcp, etherial, ..etc. >>> >>> >>> and for those who don't have those ADSL Internet like almost every body! >>> (this is the idea behind shipit because if people in 3rd world have >>> good Internet they would download linux) >>> so I suggest we prepare off-line packages for them before the feast, >>> ready to be taken on their flash Memories or CDs >>> using this procedure (before the meeting) >>> >>> preparing those extra files is simple, one install a fresh ubuntu 7.10 >>> PC and leave it (ignore any update) >>> then open synaptic then check kubuntu-desktop and make sure that >>> dependencies include Kaffein, amaroK >>> and add koffice >>> then after installing them, type >>> mkdir -p ~/pkgs/kde >>> sudo mv /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb ~/pkgs/kde/ >>> sudo chown myname ~/pkgs/kde/* >>> >>> then move that folder to a flash or something like that then >>> someone should remove ubunto and reinstall it to get a fresh clean >>> ubuntu (or let some one do it on another PC) >>> or even better not to use synaptic but use apt-get --download-only >>> apt-get --download-only install kubuntu-desktop ...etc. >>> then MOVE (not copy) the cache to a folder named KDE on the flash >>> memory, and we still have a fresh clean ubuntu >>> >>> then from a clean ubuntu we do the following: >>> for every software section I have mentioned we make a folder and put >>> all the packages there >>> (ie. installing then moving or installing them with --download-only >>> flag then move them) >>> KDE/ >>> Games/ >>> Wine/ >>> Multimedia-Basic/ >>> Multimedia-Advanced/ >>> ..etc/ >>> >>> anyway, this is size efficient because most games have same dependency >>> (SDL ..etc.) >>> and most multimedia have common gst.. mplayer, mencoder,..etc. >>> >>> and in the feast we show people how to install them by typing >>> sudo dpkg -i [without enter] >>> then go to "Games" folder and drag and drop the packages to >>> the command line then press Enter >>> >>> and in case there were some dependency failure I type >>> find ./ -iname 'lib*something*' >>> >>> and I suggest having the new Arabeyes fonts 2.0 ready and having >>> and having flash plugin tarball as the deb package only work on-line >>> >>> that's all, so who is going to do this homework >>> we may divide it on many of us, >>> we should do it right, ie. on an out-the-box-ubuntu 7.10 PC or PC64 >>> (Note: I don't have Internet, I can't help you, >>> but I did it before on my Ubuntu 7.04, I downloaded several packages >>> on a system that have net then get it to my home and I installed >>> whatever I want from them) >>> >>> >> -- >> Kefah T. 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