Sabily

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Sabily GNU/Linux
Sabily logo
Sabily Badr 11.04 Unity desktop.png
Sabily Badr 11.04 Unity desktop
OS family Unix-like
Source model Open source
Latest stable release 11.10 (Uhud) / December 19, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-12-19)
Available language(s) Multilingual (more than 55)[1]
Update method APT (front-ends available)
Package manager dpkg
Supported platforms x86 (32 bits) and x86-64 (64 bits)[2]
Kernel type Monolithic (Linux)
Default user interface GNOME
License GNU GPL and others
Official website www.sabily.org

Sabily (Arabic: سبيلي‎, IPA: [sæˈbiːliː], My Way) is a free, open source operating system designed by and for Muslims. It is based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution[3] which is a Free and Open Source (FOSS) operating system and has pre-installed packages for the Arabic language.

Sabily includes a set of packages that customizes Ubuntu. Ubuntu is easy to use for a novice user,[3][4] with the most-used Office, Internet, Graphics and Video applications already installed.[3] With Sabily, Muslim users have “out of the box” Islamic software and tools installed as well. Sabily includes Islamic software (prayer times tool, Qur'an study tool, Hijri calendar etc.) and has a custom design.

The Unity shell is based on GNOME 3 on Sabily 11.10, Unity 2D for grafic cards without 3D capabilities. The Unity shell became available on the Sabily 11.04 Badr DVD. Ubuntu Classic Desktop was the default desktop in Sabily (11.04), but Unity in Ubuntu 11.04. New applications in Badr: Islamic Date, Zakat Calc, Gufw, DesktopNova, AutoKey, recordMyDesktop, Anki.[5] The full version of Sabily comes with out of the box educational software, codecs for the most used media formats.[3][6] Wisabi is a Sabily 11.04 installer for Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 based on Wubi.[7]

Contents

[edit] Versions available

There currently exists three versions of Sabily.

The Small version (967.96 MB) contains the main Sabily packages, including artwork and Islamic applications and Arabic support.

The Full version (1.55 GB) contains the same as the Small version plus multimedia, educational and miscellaneous packages.[8]

The Ultimate version (3.3 GB) has the same content as the Full version, plus Qur'an offline recitations provided by Muhammad Siddeeq al-Minshawi, Huzify, Saad al-Ghamadi and Mishary Rashed Alafasy.

The Ultimate version is useful mainly when not connected to the Internet, yet all Sabily versions provide online Qur'an recitations.

Sabily is available as a Live DVD, which can be booted on the host computer without installation. The Wisabi installer can install Sabily to the hard disk within Microsoft Windows, without involving risky formatting or partitioning.

[edit] Additional software

As compared to Ubuntu:

  • zekr: Qur'anic Study Tool
  • minbar: Islamic prayer times application
  • monajat: application that popups prayers every predetermined time
  • firefox-praytimes: Firefox extension that displays Islamic daily prayer times
  • webstrict: UI frontend to DansGuardian (web content filtering tool)
  • nanny: parental control system
  • thwab: Electronic Encyclopedia System
  • hijra: Islamic calendar
  • mus-haf Othman: Othman Qur'an Browser
  • noor: Qur'an viewer
  • fsool: abbreviated chapters in the Messenger vita
  • rejaal: Men around the prophet

[edit] Arabic support

  • language-pack-ar: translations for language Arabic
  • language-pack-gnome-ar: GNOME translations for language Arabic
  • mozilla-firefox-locale-ar: Mozilla Firefox Arabic language/region package
  • aspell-ar: Arabic dictionary for aspell
  • acon: Text console arabization
  • bicon: Console that supports bidirectional text display
  • arab eyes qamoos: Arabic-English dictionary
  • fonts-hosny-amiri: Arabic Naskh style typographically oriented font (Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text)[9][10]

[edit] Sabily software

Main article: Zekr

Zekr is an open platform Quran study tool for browsing and researching on the Quran. Recitations and translations are available for download in here

Small version DVD available online recitations

  • Abdulbasit Abdussamad (64kbps)
  • Mishary bin Rashid Al-Afasy (128kbps)
  • Saad Al-Ghamdi (40kbps)
  • Mohammed Siddiq Al-Minshawi (16kbps)
  • Maher Al-Muaiqly (128kbps)
  • Abu Bakr Ash-Shatri (128kbps)
  • Saud Al-Shuraim (128kbps)
  • Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais (192kbps)
Main article: Minbar (software)

Minbar indicates the time when Muslims should pray. It runs in background as a tray icon and plays the "athan" (call to prayer) at prayer times. Minbar works with the main calculation methods, such as Muslim League (default), Shafii, and Hanafi.[11] Muslims observe salah five times a day, and Minbar helps to remind of daily prayer times.[12]

Monajat
Monajat software
Developer(s) Sabily Team
Initial release 2011-09-11 (v2.6.1-3)
Operating system GNU/Linux, Windows
License GPLv2
Website https://launchpad.net/monajat

Monajat is an application for GNU/Linux and Windows that displays Azkar messages. It runs in background as a tray icon and displays hadiths.

The application an application provided by the Sabily community.[13]

Zakat Calc
Developer(s) Soire Meira, Sabily Team
Initial release 2011-05-07 (v0.3.5-2)
Development status RC
Written in Gambas
Operating system GNU/Linux, Windows
Available in Malay, Indonesian, English, Arabic, Italian
License GPLv3
Website https://launchpad.net/zakat-calc

Zakat Calc is an application for GNU/Linux. Zakat Calc helps Muslims to calculate Zakat types: Gold, silver, stones, jewels, savings in bank, property, loans, business, firms, animanls (2.5%) and agriculture (10%). Zakat Calc is included in Sabily, a free, open source operating system designed by and for Muslims.

This project is for the OS Sabily. To calculate the amount of the payment of zakat. Used for educational purpose and public use. This project is free. It was created using the Gambas programming language and it runs on GNU/Linux.

Zakat or "alms giving" is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, is the giving of 2.5% of one's possessions (surplus wealth) to charity, generally to the poor and needy.

Gnome Nanny (Parental Control) is an easy way to control how long users or your kids can be on the computer and what they can and can't access browsing the web.[14]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ GNOME Languages
  2. ^ Sabily downloads
  3. ^ a b c d www.sabily.org/website
  4. ^ Ubuntu is easy to use
  5. ^ Sabily 11.04 released!
  6. ^ Sabily content
  7. ^ Wisabi
  8. ^ http://www.sabily.org/website/en/sabily/content.html
  9. ^ "Sabily 11.10 released!". http://www.sabily.org/website/en/component/content/article/6-news/780-sabily-1110-released.html. Retrieved 11 January 2012. 
  10. ^ "Debian -- Details of package font-hosny-amiri in sid". http://packages.debian.org/en/sid/font-hosny-amiri. Retrieved 11 January 2012. 
  11. ^ Debian -- Details of package minbar in sid
  12. ^ Islamic Prayer Timings
  13. ^ Monajat in Launchpad
  14. ^ Roberto Majadas, Cesar Garcia, Luis de Bethencourt (11 June 2011). "So what is Gnome Nanny?". http://projects.gnome.org/nanny/. Retrieved 12 June 2011. 

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