I have been an Ubuntu user since 2005. Although, I started out with Redhat Linux 7 – this is before days of Fedora – I found that Ubuntu is my favorite. I have tried a few other distributions such as Mandrake, now Mandriva, as well as Suse Linux, which I never liked very much and I have even crossed over to the land of the super-geeks and built a small gateway/router out of an old Hewlett Packard PC, with a 3GB and 38 MB or RAM, running a variety of BSD OS (Open BSD and FreeBSD). But none of these open source distributions were as manageable as Ubuntu.
By manageable I mean that, with Ubuntu, I could still geek-out with our small home network, but not so much that the kids could not turn on a computer in the house and still manage to navigate to the internet or their favorite games.
Now, I have learned that Ubuntu has a Muslim version of the popular and free operating system, it is called Ubuntu (ME). It comes complete with features that are particularly useful to Muslims such as:
- islamiccal: an Islamic calendar program
- minbar: a prayer reminder, it launches an athan at the prayer times.
- zekr: a Qur’anic study-tool that helps Muslims learn verses of the Qur’an
- ubuntume-artwork: GUI skins, buttons and backgrounds with Islamic themes
- and ubuntumewcc: a program that functions as a firewall and filter for you web content
I have yet to try it but if any of you install it, please give us a brief review on it.
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If anyone is interested in discussing this I have installed it on my IBM Thinkpad R51 – IBM because this is pre-Lenovo – and it looks pretty good. Ubuntu Feisty is much better than its predecessors Breezy Badger and Hoary.
[...] there and many Muslims use the Windows application Athan by IslamicFinder. But I recently installed Ubuntu ME, the Muslim edition of Ubuntu, a popular Linux OS distribution and it works well with one [...]
Which website i can download the software
At the site any of the links bring you to. Although you will have to navigate it yourself.
جزاكم الله خيرا
thank you
assalamu alikum….great work….i’ll do my beast to distibute ubuntu muslim edition,isha allah….
I installed UbunutuME it is great simply to be proud you are Muslim and use open source software!
I run ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 gnome
I’m very happy to know there is an Ubuntu Muslim Edition
can I download the related Muslim application packages and test them on my current system?
can you please give some step by step instructions on how to get all the Islamic related applications installed on my PC
thank you very much
I have edubuntu installed on my PC, should I uninstall it before I install ubuntu ME or not?
BismillaharRahmanirRahim
as-salaamu ‘alaikum Abourami. It Ubuntu ME can only be installed on top of Ubunty Feisty. So if you have Feisty then you are ok. Follow the instructions and enjoy.
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Assalamo alaykom,
For the ones who have already an ubuntu standard version installed and they would like to convert it to ubuntuME, see here:
http://www.ubuntume.com/installation#convert_a_standard_ubuntu_installation
And for all other requests and question you can see on the web site http://www.ubuntume.com and they will find inshalla the answers.
For the ones who would like to contribute see here: http://www.ubuntume.com/support
Assalamo alaykom
hello
assalamu’alaikum,,
it’s great that there are Ubuntu ME
i have installed ubuntu in my pc, can I change only the skin of my previous ubuntu into Ubuntu ME?
and also some application independently?
thank you
Assalamu a laikum
I use Windows XP. But I want to use Ubutu Muslim Editiion, can I use it?
Tell me to my Email, plese
Thank you very mush
wa alaykum selam. sure everything is here on the page. find the links and knock your self out!