Appeal For Arabic-Enabled Software To Help Palestinians

[Nazias]

Appeal For Arabic-Enabled Software To Help Palestinians

We are a small project helping people in Palestine and have made a DVD film about the problems on the Olive Harvest. It has been selected as DVD of the Month in Palestine as shown in this link: http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=2147& ed=140&edid= 140

The computers we ship have the English version of Windows 98. But in Palestine they will need to switch to the Arabic language set as well. Our co-workers in Palestine have had difficulty finding Arabic enabled versions of older software, particularly Windows 98, 2000, and Millennium. If anyone has LEGAL versions of these old operating systems please get in touch with us. Legal copies of other software packages for word-processing, database, etc, would also be helpful.

For more details and to help contact:E-mail: EdwardHill1@ yahoo.co.uk / Website: www.BristolComputers4Palestine.co.uk

[Cashew]

Appeal For Arabic-Enabled Software To Help Palestinians

We are a small project helping people in Palestine and have made a DVD film about the problems on the Olive Harvest. It has been selected as DVD of the Month in Palestine as shown in this link: http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=2147& ed=140&edid= 140

The computers we ship have the English version of Windows 98. But in Palestine they will need to switch to the Arabic language set as well. Our co-workers in Palestine have had difficulty finding Arabic enabled versions of older software, particularly Windows 98, 2000, and Millennium. If anyone has LEGAL versions of these old operating systems please get in touch with us. Legal copies of other software packages for word-processing, database, etc, would also be helpful.

For more details and to help contact:E-mail: EdwardHill1@ yahoo.co.uk / Website: www.BristolComputers4Palestine.co.uk

Is this really a common problem? I thought that all the big-deal operating systems were Arabic-enabled.

[belal1]

Appeal For Arabic-Enabled Software To Help Palestinians

We are a small project helping people in Palestine and have made a DVD film about the problems on the Olive Harvest. It has been selected as DVD of the Month in Palestine as shown in this link: http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=2147& ed=140&edid= 140

The computers we ship have the English version of Windows 98. But in Palestine they will need to switch to the Arabic language set as well. Our co-workers in Palestine have had difficulty finding Arabic enabled versions of older software, particularly Windows 98, 2000, and Millennium. If anyone has LEGAL versions of these old operating systems please get in touch with us. Legal copies of other software packages for word-processing, database, etc, would also be helpful.

For more details and to help contact:E-mail: EdwardHill1@ yahoo.co.uk / Website: www.BristolComputers4Palestine.co.uk

if they use hardware that old, they might aswell use linux. it'll be faster, fully arabic compatible out of the box, and it's free.

[Cashew]

if they use hardware that old, they might aswell use linux. it'll be faster, fully arabic compatible out of the box, and it's free.

I really think you're onto something.

[belal1]

I really think you're onto something.

what do you mean?

[Cashew]

what do you mean?

From what I've read, it just makes sense for people who don't have a lot of resources to switch to a Linux-based operating system.

From what I've been reading, you're not only free from the Microsoft nightmare, but you also liberate a great deal of your machine's memory.

[belal1]

From what I've read, it just makes sense for people who don't have a lot of resources to switch to a Linux-based operating system.

From what I've been reading, you're not only free from the Microsoft nightmare, but you also liberate a great deal of your machine's memory.

yup :up:

so when shipping/recycling old computers to third world countries, it's best to load em up with linux and free software. Not only will the people recieving the systems have a fully functional system, but they will have a system that lets them do their job without worrying about virus, high hardware requirements, and piracy. And while piracy may not seem like a big issue in the third world country since everyone's doing it, we have a moral obligation to prohibit the bad and encourage the evil. piracy is just stealing at the end ofthe day, so best to teach people to use free software than steal proprietary (and very buggy) software.