New Official Sabily Homepage

    Congratulations to all Sabily team members for their new appearance and layout of an official homepage launched few days ago.  New layout looks modern and beautiful with new colors and texts. You can see it at http://sabily.org.

Here some screenshots of it.

01. HOME
Here is the main page of the Sabily Official homepage. Any new information will be added here.

02. SABILY - Everything you need
On this menu you can get sub menu for Installation,  Contents, Screenshots and Download.

03. COMMUNITY - Get Involved
Here you can get sub menu for Forum, Spread Sabily, Launchpad, Chat with us, Contact us and  Guestbook

04. BLOG
This is new added menu on the homepage and still under constructions.

05. ON THE WEB
On the web is page that add any website and blog that talk about Sabily on their site. Thanks for them for spreading the word about Sabily.

06. ISLAM
This also new added page that talking about Islam since Sabily is an Islamic operating system. You can get sub menu for Hijri Date Converter, Holy Quran and Hadith Of The Day.

     That's a little info about the homepage that I browse. Lets spread this information to all of our acquaintance, family and friends.

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Upgrade Sabily 10.04 Manarat to Sabily 10.10 Al-Quds

   Thinking to upgrade from Sabily 10.04 Manarat to Sabily 10.10 Al-Quds? I think Sabily developer should focus on this point because it is the most important part to show their appreciation to all Sabily user. If user can make upgrade from previous version to new version easily, then they will consider for using it forever. But if it is difficult for them to upgrade, most probably they will left from using Sabily distro and switch to other operating systems.

    I had try to upgrade from Sabily Manarat to Sabily Al-Quds but not full of software installed and it procedure took about half a day to complete. If you decide to upgrade your Sabily Manarat to Sabily Al-Quds, you can follow the procedure that I use below. As normal we have to update our Sabily 10.04 Manarat to Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat first and this procedure that take long time to successes. After completed, then we convert it to Sabily 10.10 Al-Quds. This will completed about ten minutes only.

    You can try this procedure by your own risk due to different hardware of your system and mine. Anyway you can use this procedure for your reference.


01. Open Update Manager then Upgrade your distro to Ubuntu 10.10.

02. Release Notes appeared, click Upgrade.

03. Download an upgrade tool start.

04. Preparing to upgrade starts.

 05. To start upgrade, click on Start Upgrade.

06. Upgrading processed. Wait for some information.

07. Upgrade complete. Close it.

08. Restart your session.

09. Open Update Manager to get Sabily Al-Quds updates. Click on Install Update.

10. If you can't get the updates, on Update Manager, go to Settings/Other Software, check all Sabily repository.

 11. Downloading updates.

12. Upgrade completed. You need to change your wallpaper manually at /lib/plymouth/themes/sabily.

   Normally I will make new installation for new version of Sabily and deleted an old version of it. It is because I'm not satisfied to use an upgrade procedure. Then make new installation is better for me. Maybe you don't want to re customize your Sabily so you decide to make an upgrade only. It up to you to decide it but please remind that upgrade from Sabily to Ubuntu process will take very long time that will make we argue of it.

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Try Sabily Al-Quds In Windows - Creating Virtual Drive

    Now we have to setup and create a virtual drive in VirtualBox for Sabily Al-Quds to be install inside it. After that you can install and try Sabily Al-Quds inside your Windows OS. Lets create it.

01. Start your VirtualBox. Click on New icon.

02. Welcome screen appeared, click Next.

03. Naming your virtual machine and OS type, click Next.

04. Adjust memory size that you want to spend for your virtual machine. Recommend not more than half.

05. Select Create new hard disk, click Next.

06. Some information, click Next.

07. Select Dynamically expanding storage, click Next.

08. Adjust virtual hard disk size, for try only, just left to default 8 GB, click Next.

09. Summary of your virtual hard disk setting, click Finish.

    Your virtual hard disk created. Next you need to set Sabily Al-Quds ISO file and some setting of your Sabily virtual machine in able to install it on your Windows OS.

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Try Sabily Al-Quds In Windows - Virtual Machine Installation

    After successes download Sabily Al-Quds, maybe you want to try it without install to you computer system that already installed with Windows OS. An easier way is to use virtual machine. Normally I'm using Virtualbox. You can download it from their homepage at http://virtualbox.org or directly from here (VirtualBox 3.2.10 for Windows hosts).

    When your download finished, you have to install it to your Windows OS. Follow an instruction below to install it. For example I'm using Windows XP Service pack 3. I hope it was same to Windows 7 also.

01. Open your Virtualbox installation file.

02. Click next for Installation to start.

03. Accept the License Agreement.

04. Click to setup with default features setting.

05. This example will setup without Networking features.

06. Custom setup to create shortcut or not. Click Next to proceed.

07. Click Install to start installation.

08. Installation complete. Select either you want to start Virtualbox then click Finish.

09. You can find it at Start/All Programs/Oracle VM VirtualBox.

    Next we will setup a virtual drive for Sabily Al-Quds to be install on it. Hopefully you have reserve space on your hard drive for that.

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Sabily 10.10 - Al Quds release

After waiting in patient, Sabily 10.10 Al-Quds now release. You can get it but only for small version. Soon they will upload for full version. So if you preferred for full version, better to wait until they finish upload it. If you like to download small version you can download it from here. Maybe you like to go to Sabily download page here.

Here some information from Sabily homepage,

What's new:
- New "Al-Quds" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
- New screensaver pictures
- New Sabily logo
- Zekr 1.0.0
- New software: Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine

New from Ubuntu 10.10:
- New Ubuntu Software Center
- Installer: The Ubiquity Installer has been redesigned to be easier to use as well as to install drivers and download updates during installation.
- Gnome 2.32
- Evolution 2.30, much faster
- Shotwell has replaced F-Spot as the default photo manager

And still "nanny", parental web control application

"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

Lets download and use Sabily operating system on our Desktop and Laptop.

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