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وكمان ابي اعرف اذا كان يدعم العربيه ولا لا


وشكراً;-)

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السلام عليكم........

حياك الله اخوي ...ترى انا مستجد في عالم ليونكس ( تقريبا نزلته على جهازي قبل 3 اسابيع )

واللي اقدر اقولك انه ليونكس نظام تشغيل ( مثل الوندوز ) .. انصحك في استخدام ليونكس Mandrake فهو مناسب للمبتدئين .

طبعا مااقدر ادخل في تفاصيل اكثر ولكن اترك الباقي للخبراء في هذا المنتدى.

واذا تبي معلومات اكثر تفضل هذا الموقع :

http://www.linux4arab.com/

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لينكس يدعم اللغه العربيه فى واجهه كي دي الاصدار الثالث فما فوق KDE 3.

اصدار ريد هات Red Hat 7.3 يحتوي علي كي دي الذي يمكن تعريبه.

لونر

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Installing Red Hat Linux 7.3

Most people who want to use Linux need a transition period t get accustomed to Linux.
This transition is done by dual booting. It means that you use two operating systems on
your computer. Everytime you start the computer you have to choose which operating system
to use To make life easier, get a separate hard disk for Linux. Of course, you can use your
existing hard disk but you have to create room on it for Linux. A full install of Red Hat
Linux 7.3 (www.redhat.com) will require a bit more than 2 GB.
You really should have at least 5 GB to accommodate all the programs and files you may and will
get in the future.

Here are the steps to make room on your hard disk for Linux. On Windows , right click on
C drive and choose Properties-> Tools. You will find a Defrag button, click on it.
This will take a few minutes. Defragmenting the hard disk will push all the data to the
beginning of the hard disk and all the empty space will be on at the end of the hard disk.
This empty space will be used to create a new partition by using a dos program called FIPS.
It's on the first Red Hat Linux CD. After Defrag finishes, reboot into DOS command line.
Don't boot into Windows and then use a DOS command line; that will not work. After rebooting
in to DOS, change to the directory where the first Red Hat CD is. Change to the
"dosutils/fips20" directory and type: fips. After that the program will ask you to choose
how much space you want to create for the new partition. Now, you can begin the install of
Red Hat Linux 7.3. The installer will see the new partition and can use it for Red Hat Linux.

Red Hat Linux comes in 3 CDs. The first CD is bootable, so put the first CD in the CD-ROM drive
and reboot the system. Nearly all PCs today are configured to boot from the CD_ROM drive first.
If yours doesn't, you'll have to modify a setting in the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).
When the system reboots, you will be greeted with the Red Hat text screen. Press enter and the
graphical user interface (GUI) will take you through the rest of the install.

The first window you will see in the installer GUI is the Red Hat Linux welcome screen.
You move to the next window by clicking on the NEXT button. The next window is about
language to be used during the install. The default is English. Then comes the keyboard
window. It has three sections:layout, language, and something called "Dead Keys." It's safe
to go with the defaults. By the way, there is a good online help on the left hand side which
offers explanation of the options. The following window is about the mouse. There are a few
types of mice and the installer should detect your mouse type easily. If it didn't, have no
fear. Look at the list and select the correct model or choose a generic type which will work
good enough. Also, click on Enable 3 button Emulation. This option means that if you click
on both mouse buttons at the same time, you will get a different menu.

After that we come to the install type. Most people want to use Linux on their home PCs, so
they should choose Workstation. On the following screen, you will have to choose the password
for the root user and add at least one more regular user. The 'root' user is the system
administrator account and the password that you will choose MUST be a good one. A good password
is one that has at least 8 characters long. It must contain numbers, lower-case letters,
and upper-case letters. It must not be in the English dictionary and it must not be something
that others can guess easily. You login the root user account to do system maintenance only.
To browse the Internet, play games, type, etc, you , must use a regular user account. That's
why you must create one user account that you will use for your day to day activity.

The following screen is all about the bootloader. This is a program that is responsible for
starting the operating system. It also gives you a menu to choose from it which operating
system to boot if yo have more than one operating system. Red Hat Linux 7.3 has two
bootloaders: the new Grub and the old venerable Lilo. I like to go with the new. Grub is chosen
by default so leave it like that. If you have two operating systems, for example Red Hat Linux
and Windows 98, then you can choose which one of them will be the default. Also you can edit
the name of the operating system that will appear on the boot menu. Choosing an operating
system to be the default means that when the boot menu is displayed, the system will wait for
a few seconds for you to make a selection. If you don't , the default will be used. The next
screen asks you if you want to use a password for the bootloader. You can ignore it unless if
you are paranoid.

The firewall screen is next. Previous versions of Red Hat didn't offer firewall configuration
as part of the install process, but this version does. You can pretty much leave the defaults
because they are good. Then comes the Additional Languages screen. Here you can add languages
that you want to be available in the system, such as Arabic. Note that the use of those
additional languages depends on the window manager (later about this). KDE 3.0 has a very good
support for Arabic. Gnome, version 1.4, which ships with Red Hat Linux 7.3 does not have
support for Arabic. For that, you will have to download Gnome 2. It's better to wait for the
next release of Red Hat Linux which will include the newer window managers. The time Zone
configuration window is up next. You can choose your area from the interactive map by
clicking on it.

On the next screen, you get to choose the components that you want on the system. There are
a few basic packages that are needed. The bulk of the packages are optional for the system
to function properly. A lot of people would argue that games are essential. I'm not the one
to disagree. It's better to choose everything including the sink.

The screen for the video card is next. This video card used to be the biggest problem faced
when installing Linux. But with newer versions, that problem is about to become obsolete.
With any luck the installer will detect your video card and the correct amount of video memory
it has. If you are unlucky and the video card is unrecognized, you should go to the Web site
of the card manufacturer. More and more companies are making available drivers for Linux.

Now comes the longest step: formating the hard disk and installing the packages. You should
select auto format and the installer well prepare the hard disk for Linux and then will proceed
to install the packages that were chosen. After this step finishes, comes the bootdisk window.
By all means, get an empty floppy and put in the floppy drive and click next. This bootdisk
may become a lifesaver, trust me. The monitor window is next to last. The monitor should have
been detected by the installer with the correct horizontal & vertical refresh rates, so just
click next.

The last window is all about the look and feel of the GUI. First, you choose the resolution.
I like 800x600 but you may choose something else. You can always see how it will look by
clicking on the test button. The comes the time to choose your weapons, the window manger!
In the world of Windows, there is one desktop look; it's what some focus group at Microsoft
decided that will be suitable for everyone. In the world of Linux, you have several choices
about the look and feel of your desktop. The two leading candidates are Gnome (www.gnome.org)
and KDE (www.kde.org). For Red Hat, the default window manager is Gnome. You can choose KDE if
you like. Note that later on the login screen, you can choose from the menu which window
manager to choose. There is a choice for text of graphical, choose graphical. And you are done.
The install on my PC, which has an AMD K6-II 550MH CPU, took about 45 minutes from the moment
I put the first CD in the CD-ROM drive and rebooted until I logged in to Red Hat Linux.

I include screen shoots of Gnome and KDE window manager just to give you a taste of things to
come. I hope this article will make you curious enough to actually install Red Hat Linux.
To get your hands on a Linux distribution you can do one of these: join Saudi Linux group at
Yahoo (groups.yahoo.com/group/saudi_linux) and post a question asking someone to give you
a copy of Red Hat Linux or any other Linux distributions. A second option is to contact the
good folks at Internet Service Unit (www.isu.net.sa). You can send them an email at
(info@isu.net.sa) and ask them if you can get a copy of a Linux distribution. They are very
helpful.

One last point to mention: Arabic support. Many people found it difficult or impossible to
use Linux because it did not support Arabic language. That is becoming a thing of the past.
Arabic support in KDE is around 80% and will be complete in a couple of months. Also, the new
version of Gnome, Gnome2, has a very good Arabic support. The picture I included of KDE shows
the main menu completely in Arabic. All the office programs that come with KDE can be switched
to Arabic interface. This Arabic support has been added thanks to the great work of
volunteers at (www.arabeyes,org). Not a single Arabian government helped in this regard!
All Arabian governments and companies should seriously consider abandoning Microsoft Office in
favor of KDE Office which has Arabic support and it costs next to nothing.