Sabily ( ar, سبيلي, , ''My Way'') is a discontinued
Linux distribution based on
Ubuntu
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, designed by and for
Muslims
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.
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Originally named Ubuntu Muslim Edition (presented as UbuntuME), development for Sabily was active from 2007 to 2011.
Sabily is designed for Muslim users to have out-of-the-box Arabic language
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...
support and Islamic software and tools installed, including a prayer times tool, a Qur'an
The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , s ...
study tool, a Hijri calendar
The Hijri calendar ( ar, ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, translit=al-taqwīm al-hijrī), also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or ...
, etc.
The Unity shell is based on GNOME 3 on Sabily 11.10, Unity 2D for graphic 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
AutoKey is a free, open-source scripting application for Linux.
AutoKey allows the user to define hotkeys and trigger phrases which expand to predefined text, automating frequent or repetitive tasks such as correcting typographical errors or c ...
, recordMyDesktop, Anki.
The full version of Sabily comes with out-of-the-box educational software, codec
A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. ''Codec'' is a portmanteau of coder/decoder.
In electronic communications, an endec is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or ...
s for the most used media formats. Wisabi is a Sabily 11.04 installer for Windows XP
Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Windows 2000 for high-end and ...
, Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released five years before, at the time being the longest time span between successive releases of ...
or Windows 7
Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009. It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly ...
based on Wubi.
History
Sabily was previously named as Ubuntu Muslim Edition (UbuntuME). Sabily is following releasing cycle of Ubuntu. After Ubuntu 9.04, It was changed to Sabily.
* UbuntuME 7.04 released 12 October 2007
* UbuntuME 7.10 released 2 December 2007
* UbuntuME 8.04 released 17 May 2008
* UbuntuME 8.04.1 released 22 July 2008
* Sabily 9.04 Taibah released 12 May 2009
* Sabily 9.10 Gaza released 27 December 2009
* Sabily 10.04 Manarat released 28 June 2010
* Sabily 11.04 Badr released 5 May 2011
* Sabily 11.10 Uhud released 19 December 2011
Versions available
There are currently three versions of Sabily, but there is no official host at the moment.
* Small version (967.96 MB), contains the main Sabily packages, including artwork and Islamic applications and Arabic support.
* Full version (1.55 GB), contains the same as the Small version plus multimedia, educational and miscellaneous packages.
* 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
A live CD (also live DVD, live disc, or live operating system) is a complete bootable computer installation including operating system which runs directly from a CD-ROM or similar storage device into a computer's memory, rather than loading fr ...
, 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.
Additional software
As compared to Ubuntu:
* zekr: Qur'anic Study Tool
* minbar: Islamic prayer times application
*: application that pops up prayers at predetermined times
*: Firefox extension that displays Islamic daily prayer times
*: UI frontend to DansGuardian (web content filtering tool)
*nanny: the GNOME Nanny parental-control system
*: Electronic Encyclopedia System
*: Islamic calendar
* Othman: Othman Qur'an Browser
*: Qur'an viewer
*: abbreviated chapters in the Messenger vita
*: Men around the prophet
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 : 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)
Sabily software
Zekr is an open platform Quran study tool for browsing and researching on the Quran. Recitations and translations are available for download.
Small version DVD available online recitations:
* Abdulbasit Abdussamad (64kbit/s)
* Mishary bin Rashid Al-Afasy (128kbit/s)
* Saad Al-Ghamdi (40kbit/s)
* Mohammed Siddiq Al-Minshawi (16kbit/s)
* Maher Al-Muaiqly (128kbit/s)
* Abu Bakr Ash-Shatri (128kbit/s)
* Saud Al-Shuraim (128kbit/s)
* Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais (192kbit/s)
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. Muslims observe '' salat'' five times a day, and Minbar helps to remind the user of daily prayer times.
Monajat is an application for Linux and Windows that displays Azkar messages. It runs in the background as a tray icon and displays hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...
s. The application is an application provided by the Sabily community.
Zakat Calc is an application for Linux. ''Zakat
Zakat ( ar, زكاة; , "that which purifies", also Zakat al-mal , "zakat on wealth", or Zakah) is a form of almsgiving, often collected by the Muslim Ummah. It is considered in Islam as a religious obligation, and by Quranic ranking, is ...
'', or almsgiving, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam
The Five Pillars of Islam (' ; also ' "pillars of the religion") are fundamental practices in Islam, considered to be obligatory acts of worship for all Muslims. They are summarized in the famous hadith of Gabriel. The Sunni and Shia agree o ...
, is the giving of 2.5% of one's possessions (surplus wealth) to charity, generally to the poor and needy. Zakat Calc helps Muslims to calculate ''zakat'' types: gold, silver, stones, jewels, savings in bank, property, loans, business, firms, animals (2.5%) and agriculture (10%). It was created using the Gambas
Gambas is the name of an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, as well as the integrated development environment that accompanies it. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a re ...
programming language and it runs on Linux.
Gnome Nanny (parental control) is an easy way to control how long users or children can be on the computer and what they can and cannot access browsing the web.
See also
* Free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
References
External links
*
sabily blogsphere: Sabily 11.04 Badr Released
Quick Look: Ubuntu Muslim Edition 10.10 (Sabily Al Quds)
Sabily 10.04 review from Desktop Linux Reviews
Sabily 9.04 review from Softpedia
Sabily 9.04 review from ExtremeTech
Sabily 9.04 reviewed in LinuxToday
Zakat Calc in Launchpad
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