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. 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, codecs for the most used media formats and has better support for Arabic language.

Sabily 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.

Additional software.

As compared to Ubuntu:

    * zekr: Quranic Study Tool
    * minbar: Islamic prayer times application
    * monajat: application that popups prayers every predetermined time
    * firefox-praytimes: Firefox extension that displays Islamic daily prayer times
    * webstrict: UI frontend to DansGuardian (web content filtering tool)
    * nanny: parental control system
    * thwab: Electronic Encyclopedia System
    * hijra: Islamic calendar
    * mus-haf Othman : Othman Quran Browser
    * noor: Quran viewer
    * fsool: abbreviated chapters in the Messenger vita
    * rejaal: 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 qamoos: Arabic-English dictionary

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