Sabily is a free, open source operating system designed by and for Muslims.

Sabily is a free, open source operating system designed by and for Muslims.

It is based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution which is a Free and Open Source (FOSS) operating system.

Sabily includes a set of packages that customizes Ubuntu. Ubuntu is easy to use for a novice user, with the most-used Office, Internet, Graphics and Video applications already installed.[citation needed] With Sabily, Muslim users have “out of the box” Islamic software and tools installed as well

Sabily includes Islamic software (prayer times tool, Quran study tool, Hijri calendar etc.) and has a custom design. Sabily comes with out of the box educational software[2], codecs for the most used media formats[citation needed] and has better support for Arabic language.

Sabily 10.04 is available as a Live DVD, which can be booted on the host computer without installation. Currently there are three versions existing:

* Small version (935 MB): contains the main Sabily packages, including artwork and Islamic applications and Arabic support
* Full version (1.4 GB): contains the same as the Small version plus multimedia, educational and miscellaneous packages (see the full list here)
* Full version with recitations (2.8 GB): same as Full version plus Quran recitations provided by http://www.versebyversequran.com: Muhammad Siddeeq al-Minshawi, Huzify, Sa’ad al-Ghamadi and Mishary Rashed Alafasy. Note: this version is useful when not connected to the Internet (all Sabily versions provide online recitations)

To convert a standard Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) installation to Sabily, a CD (184 MB) is available, containing repository-packages.

Updates:

Sabily 11.04, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a collection of Islamic software and an integrated web content filtering tool, has been released: "The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 11.04, code name 'Al-Badr'. What's new: new 'Al-Badr' pictures and wallpapers, new Plymouth and GDM themes; Unity and Unity 2D available, but Ubuntu classic (GNOME 2) set by default; new Firefox persona. New applications: Islamic Date - a Firefox extension that displays Hijri date; Zakat Calculator provides Zakat calculations; gufw - an easy-to-use Ubuntu firewall; DesktopNova (replacing WallpaperTray); autoKey - to avoid typing frequently encountered words; recordMyDesktop - records desktop sessions to a video file (Ogg Theora Vorbis file); Anki - an extensible flash card learning program...."

Read the rest of the release announcement for more details.

Download (MD5): sabily-11.04-desktop-i386-small.iso (917MB, torrent).

Recent releases:

 • 2011-05-05: Distribution Release: Sabily 11.04
 • 2010-11-03: Distribution Release: Sabily 10.10
 • 2010-06-28: Distribution Release: Sabily 10.04
 • 2009-12-27: Distribution Release: Sabily 9.10
 • 2009-05-12: Distribution Release: Sabily 9.04
 • 2008-11-19: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.10

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Superb Mini Server (SMS) is a Linux operating system console based and manageable through Webmin web-based interface.

Superb Mini Server (SMS) is a Slackware-based server distribution with web, DNS, DHCP, file, print and fax servers, iptables firewall, mail server with spam filter and anti-virus scanner, and BitTorrent station.

It also includes Webmin, a web-based administration tool, but no graphical desktop. SMS, which comes with Slackware's text-mode system installer, is built using Linux-Live scripts (from Slax) and can be used as a live CD for testing purposes.

SMS also features TorrentFlux, a powerful php based bit torrent client that can be managed from anywhere, making this server not only server administrators interest, but simple users too that want to download torrents safe and secure.

Updates (via Distrowatch):

Superb Mini Server (SMS) 1.5.6, a Slackware-based server distribution, has been released: "Superb Mini Server version 1.5.6 released (Linux kernel 2.6.35.11). SMS 1.5.6 comes with a long-term version of the Linux kernel. This release upgrades packages to Slackware 'Current' and brings the latest stable versions of several packages. New packages in this release are Berkeley DB 4.6 (this is the default DB for SMS from now on) LXC, libcgroup, nss-mdns, util-linux (replaces util-linux-ng) and Yasm. New packages in extra are the Avahi directory which includes Avahi, libdaemon, nss-mdns with Avahi support and imlib2 which is mostly for sharing photo libraries through Avahi to iPhoto or FronRow on a Mac OS X or to an Apple TV. Important changes for those who are upgrading are Netatalk and OpenLDAP compiled against Berkeley DB 4.6."

Here is the release announcement with a brief changelog.

Download (MD5): SMS.Live.CD-1.5.6.iso (365MB), SMS64.Live.CD-1.5.6.iso (377MB)

Recent versions:

• 2011-02-21: Distribution Release: Superb Mini Server 1.5.6
• 2011-01-08: Distribution Release: Superb Mini Server 1.5.5
• 2010-12-06: Distribution Release: Superb Mini Server 1.5.4
• 2010-09-14: Distribution Release: Superb Mini Server 1.5.3
• 2010-06-21: Distribution Release: Superb Mini Server 1.5.2



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XawTv, application suite for video4linux, apps to watch tv, to record movies, command line tools to handle v4l devices and teletext browser.

XawTV is a program that allows a person to watch and record television through a PC with either a TV tuner or a Satellite receiver card DVB-S. xawtv works on Unix-like operating systems, and is licensed under the GPL.

It does not favour any particular desktop environment. It comes with applications which use MOTIF-based widgets, as well as other X11 and command line applications. It works with Video4linux and XVideo. The interface to xawtv is minimalistic.

Applications.

xawtv
of course, it is still the main application, for watching TV.
motv
a new, IMHO better, TV application with a Motif-based GUI.
mtt
a teletext browser, also uses Motif. This one works on a terminal too.
pia
a simple movie player.

There are also a number of tools for the command line and the linux console:

fbtv
is a TV application for the linux console, it uses a framebuffer devices to display the video.
streamer
a command line tool for recording movies.
v4lctl
a command line tool to set video4linux parameters (tune in some channel, set TV norm, ...).
scantv
a command line tool to do a channel scan.
radio
a simple, curses-based radio app.
webcam
captures images and uploads them to a Web-Server via ftp or ssh in a endless loop.
alevtd
a http server for videotext pages, so you can watch read videotext with a webbrowser.

Most of the apps share the xawtv config file (~/.xawtv).

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Xvidenc, s shell script which makes it easy to encode DVDs, (S)VCDs or video files to the Xvid video format.

Xvidenc shell script which makes it easy to encode DVDs to Xvid

A shell script which makes it easy to encode DVDs, (S)VCDs or video files to the Xvid video format using MEncoder from the MPlayer project.

xvidenc is written in a way to be useful for power users yet it is also very user friendly for people who are novices when it comes to video encoding. xvidenc operates by asking questions to the user, collecting the input and passing it over to the encoder software. One of its unique features is the ability to use built-in video quality presets. This is especially useful to people who are just starting to encode video.

xvidenc has a total of 17 video quality presets ranging from Ultra Low Quality to Near Lossless Quality. It further has the ability to
auto-detect a lot of stuff, like DVD titles, chapters, subtitles, audio streams, and it supports frequently used video filters like scale, crop, dering, deblock, noise, denoise, (un)sharp mask/gaussian blur, deinterlace, interlace, inverse telecine/pullup and hard telecine/3:2 pulldown.

Download:

• [transcode_1.1.5-0ubuntu6.dsc]
• [transcode_1.1.5.orig.tar.gz]
• [transcode_1.1.5-0ubuntu6.diff.gz]

DVD Title Scanning

Interlacing Of Progressive Content

Deinterlacing

Inverse Telecine/3:2 Pulldown

Denoising

Deblocking/Deringing

(Un)sharp Mask/Gaussian Blur

Software Scaling

Presets

Audio Codec Configuration

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