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Sabily 10.10, "Al-Quds" Release Date

at Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Post by : meorbu 0 comments

Information from Mr. Mehdi that Sabily 10.10 Al-Quds target released is on 1st of November 2010. They also provided countdown theme to use for promoting and spreading Sabily. So Insya'Allah we will get it on 1st of November 2010. You can use countdown theme by copy the code of each that you like.

Theme 1

Code = http://88.191.122.107/Sabily.Countdown/Countdown.aspx?release=10.10&theme=1

Theme 2
Code = http://88.191.122.107/Sabily.Countdown/Countdown.aspx?release=10.10&theme=2

Theme 3
Code = http://88.191.122.107/Sabily.Countdown/Countdown.aspx?release=10.10&theme=3

Theme 4
Code = http://88.191.122.107/Sabily.Countdown/Countdown.aspx?release=10.10&theme=4

Feel free to put the countdown theme on your site in order to spread Sabily 10.10 Al-Quds.

Sabily New Logo Released

at Monday, October 18, 2010 Post by : meorbu 3 comments

Mr. Abdelmonam already announced and released our new Sabily logo and brand. Everybody can use it now for promoting or advertisement. It different from no 2 logo that we voted before after modified by Mr. Muslih. Previously we have three dot outside the circle which is same like Ubuntu where just change the colour. Now we have five dot out of the circle to shows different between Ubuntu and Sabily. Five dot also give a meaning for Five Pillars of Islam. Lets spread it to all of our community and others.

New logo of Sabily

New brand of Sabily

How to boot from CD/DVD ?

at Thursday, October 14, 2010 Post by : meorbu 0 comments

To install any distro you have to make your system boot from Live CD or DVD that you created from an ISO file. On some computer system, they set it BIOS setting to boot from CD/DVD. If yours one like that, easy for you to install any distro cause it will automatically boot from Live CD/DVD. But not all system set like that, and maybe someone already change the setting. Then you need to know a little about BIOS setting in able to make your system booting from CD/DVD. If talking about installation in Windows by using Wubi, it is same concept to make the computer system boot from CD/DVD. If your BIOS setting not set to boot from CD/DVD, Wubi also will not work for you to install any distro from it.

Before you start all you need is user manual of your computer motherboard. In the manual you will find a key to push after you power on your computer in order to enter BIOS setting. So you need to search a topic about entering BIOS setup. Normally if non branded computer system, you need to push Delete key after power it on. After entering the BIOS menu, go to sub menu which is similar to "Advanced BIOS Features". Inside the sub menu you will find setting for boot sequence of your device. So you should select the first one to CD/DVD. If you use bootable USB Drive to install your distro, select it to the first boot order. Maybe you would not find USB Drive. It normally state as USB-HDD in your BIOS.

After set your boot order don't forget to save it. Then put your Live CD/DVD in your drive. Exit your BIOS then your PC should restart automatically and boot from you Live CD/DVD. Normally short cut to save BIOS setting and exit is push F10 on your keyboard. Select Yes then Enter.

Below picture is some example that I take. You can make it as a reference to make your system boot from CD/DVD.

01. An example to enter BIOS Setup.

02. BIOS Setup Utility. Go to Advanced BIOS Features. Sub menu below Standard CMOS Features.

03. Boot Sequence at Sub menu no 3 from top.

04. Boot Sequence explained. To boot from Live CD/DVD you should select CDROM.

Save your setting. Put your Live CD/DVD on it drive then Exit your BIOS Setting. Now you should able to boot from your Live CD/DVD.

Xubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Installation

at Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Post by : meorbu 2 comments

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with Xfce desktop environment. Xfce is something like Unix operating system. Design for lightweight PC which mean old PC but optimize to be fast and user friendly. Its only need minimum of 192 Mbytes of memory and 2 Gbytes of free space hard disk for installation. Installation process also very easy and fast. Soon we will have Sabily with Xfce environment which is now under study by Sabily group member on Facebook. He will call it XSabily. For your reference, I share my experience installing Xubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.

01. Boot from Live CD. Language menu appeared.

02. Select Install Xubuntu.

03. Select language for installation.

04. Preparing for Installation.

05. Allocate drive space.

06. Ready to install. Click Install Now.

07. Select your location.

08. Select keyboard layout.

09. Fill your name, password and log in style.

10. Installation starts.

11. Installation completed. It takes about less than 25 minutes. Click Restart Now.

12. Log in to Xubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. Very fast log in.

13. Checking version from Terminal and Menu of Xubuntu.

We can find many distro that include Xfce desktop environment in their release for example Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Open Suse, Solaris etc. I'm enjoyed installed it on my Virtualbox. Hope you have fun to install it on your system or your virtual machine.

Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat RC

at Saturday, October 09, 2010 Post by : meorbu 1 comments

Hopefully not too late for me to share Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Release Candidate which is KDE version of Ubuntu. Soon I would like to convert Sabily Al-Quds from Gnome to KDE Insya'Allah. Installation step had a little different from Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat anyway very easy to follow. Let see it,

01. To install, choose Install Kubuntu.