Sabily (previously known as Ubuntu Muslim Edition) is a free, open source operating system based on the popular Ubuntu Linux. UbuntuME stands for Ubuntu Muslim Edition.
What is Linux?
Linux is a free, efficient and secured operating system. Unlike Micro$oft Windows and other proprietary systems, Linux is publicly open and extendible by contributors.
What is Ubuntu?
Ubuntu is a popular Linux distribution, designed with the intent of overthrowing Micro$oft Windows as the world's most widely-used operating system.
The distro is composed entirely of open source components, which have been heavily modified for easy of use and migration for users familiar with Micro$oft Windows, take a look here. The name Ubuntu is derived from the Zulu word for humanity, which has been incorporated into South African culture as "humanity towards others".
Ubuntu Muslim Edition customize the Ubuntu distro by installing islamic softwares (prayer times, Quran study tool, Arabic learning software etc.) and by changing its "look".
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
What's new:
· New "Uhud" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
· Hijra: Better support for Gnome3; added Gnome shell extension
· Thawab: Added support for configurable themes, added bok2ki script
· Monajat: Prayer times reminder & azan player
· fonts-hosny-amiri: Arabic Naskh style typographically oriented font
New applications:
· Alfanous: Quranic search engine
· gnome-shell-extension-islamic-datetime: GNOME Shell extension providing Islamic date/time functions
· gnome-tweak-tool: a tool to customize advanced GNOME 3 options
New from Ubuntu 11.10:
· Linux kernel 3.0
· Default email client is Thunderbird instead of Evolution
· Gnome3
· Déjà Dup backup system included in the standard installation
· Login manager is lightdm instead of gdm
· Gwibber has a new interface using the most recent GNOME technologies.
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