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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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- Moustafa Elqabbany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search >http://shopping.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > - -------------------- http://eShop.4-SMS.Com http://Mozilla.4-SMS.Com - -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.3 wkYEARECAAYFAj+ZssAACgkQIIFs5Sdd9ZhcdwCeKLTp1g3qmvqPu7ofJYSjDsz9/zoA nR4YE/XIcMYolkJwgUxN5RC+ROzs =28T+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
