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ArabicOpenCD Version 0.2 is now released.
ArabicOpenCD is an open project leaded by Djihed Afifi, and aims to create a collection CD that contains many of the open softwares needed by the Arabic user for daily tasks. This collection of softwares includes the most brillant of Design, Office utilities, Programming, Internet and other softwares.
This project is available for free on the internet; its contents are essentially oriented as open softwares for Windows users. The programs are almost completely internationalised and translated into Arabic language.
Simplified Naskh Arabic Font is released by Khaled Hosny. This font is characterized by its clarity and capability to represent letters and diacritics in their proper place.
Below is a snapshot that displays this font.
The seed of OpenBSD’s Arabic page in wikipedia is now cultivated.
The page isn’t completed yet, but there are efforts to edit and complete BSD and other Open Source OS pages in Arabic Wikipedia soon, isA.
You can access the page of OpenBSD here.
Note: It’s the right time to mention that Arabic Wikipedia needs more editors. With only 50,000 articles, Arabic Wiki is quite small relatively to other languages (like Hebrew for example who has less editors but more articles and efficiency). So everyone is invited to participate in any field because all kinds of editing, adding or reviewing in Wikipedia are appreciated.
The Arabic translation of gnome-commander is now finished.
The new release will include the fully completed Arabic translation.
You can get the translation .po file from here.
By the way, the new translated name of Gnome Commander is: فارس جنوم
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