Free reason 4.0 beta software for linux

KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations.

It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.

KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the MacOS or Microsoft Windows.

We believe that the UNIX operating system is the best operating system available today. In fact UNIX has been the undisputed choice of the information technology professional for many years. When it comes to stability, scalability and openness there is no competition to UNIX. However, the lack of an easy to use contemporary desktop environment for UNIX has prevented UNIX from finding its way onto the desktops of the typical computer user in offices and homes.

UNIX dominates the server market and is the preferred computing platform for computing professional and scientists. Without UNIX the internet would not be. But UNIX did not address the needs of the average computer user.

This fact is particularly unfortunate since a number of implementations of UNIX (Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD etc.) are freely available on the internet. All of which are of exceptional quality and stability.

KDE The Desktop Environment

With KDE there is now an easy to use contemporary desktop environment available for UNIX. Together with a free implementation of UNIX such as GNU/Linux, UNIX/KDE constitutes a completely free and open computing platform available to anyone free of charge including its source code for anyone to modify. While there will always be room for improvement we believe to have delivered a viable alternative to some of the more commonly found and commercial operating systems/desktops combinations available today. It is our hope that the combination UNIX/KDE will finally bring the same open, reliable, stable and monopoly free computing to the average computer user that scientist and computing professionals world-wide have enjoyed for years.

KDE The Application Development Framework

Authoring applications under UNIX/X11 used to be an extremely difficult and tedious process. KDE recognizes the fact that a computing platform is only as good as the amount of first class applications available to the users of that particular platform. In view of these circumstances the KDE Project has developed a first rate compound document application framework, implementing the latest advances in framework technology and thus positioning itself in direct competition to such popular development frameworks as for example Microsofts MFC/COM/ActiveX technology. KDEs KParts compound document technology enables developers to quickly create first rate applications implementing cutting edge technology.

KDE The Office Application Suite

Leveraging the KDE application development framework a great number of applications have been built for the K Desktop Environment. A selection of those applications is contained in the KDE base distribution. At this moment KDE is developing an office application suite based on KDEs KParts technology consisting of a spread-sheet, a presentation application, an organizer, a news client and more. KPresenter, KDEs presentation application was successfully used at many presentations.

AsteriskNOW helps you install Asterisk in 30 minutes or less. The most popular open source PBX software, Asterisk, can now be easily configured with a graphical interface.

AsteriskNOW is an open source Software Appliance; a customized Linux distribution that includes Asterisk, the Asterisk GUI, and all other software needed for an Asterisk system.

Asterisk is a complete IP PBX in software. It runs on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX including many advanced features that are often associated with high end (and high cost) proprietary PBXs.

Asterisk supports Voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
Asterisk and AsteriskNOW are released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL), meaning that they are available for download free of charge.

Asterisk was created by Mark Spencer of Digium, Inc in 1999. Code has been contributed from open source coders around the world, and testing and bug-patches from the community have provided invaluable aid to the development of this software.

FreeNAS is a free implementation of a minimal FreeBSD distribution(for run it on a Compact Flash, CD-ROM or USB key) that provide NAS (Network-Attached Storage) services, supporting: CIFS, FTP, NFS protocols, with a Full WEB configuration interface.

The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface,PHP scripts and documentations are based on M0n0wall.

With the ease of modifying Slax to create a custom cd, you can have a live cd with your Asterisk install on it, doing whatever you need a pbx to do. Slast is great for demonstrating/testing Asterisk, learning Asterisk, and with the loading into ram, you can have a very powerful backup if your Asterisk box were to go down.

Slax is modular, so we hope to have a repository of user submitted modules here for you to add to your personal Slast cd.

If you want to help with anything from website design to creating modules and writing documentation, please contact droops (at) gmail to volunteer.

Why Another Distro?

This is a good question. We think that this has a place for 2 reasons, education of Asterisk and custom Asterisk live-cds. The config files have been moved and only the necessary ones remain. They have been rewritten to make getting Asterisk working, for the newcomer, the top priority.

Phaeronix is a gentoo love-sources RR4 CD with reiser4 enabled grub, auto hardware detection with nvidia 3D support , ready for multimedia, internet, and arabic. It is optimised for i686.

The kernel is now based on the 2.6.15-arckck7 patchset with a couple of additions ( one to fix acer laptop hangs and the other to fix slow laptop battery polls).
http://iphitus.loudas.com/archck.php

Final release is probably going to be based on the new -beyond patchset.
The livecd uses a genkernel generated initramfs, but with quite some hacks added to the linuxrc. As a result this initramfs can now probably boot from any media, anything from IDE to external firewire.

The CD is rendered pseudo-writable thanks to squashfs and unionfs.
Hardware detction is modular and can be turned on and off as needed. You can see the possible options in the cheatcodes list.

Modular Xorg-X11 7.0 is the default Xorg server. XGL server is included as an optional featured activated at boot time by booting like this :
"linux xgl"

This is experimental and might not work. Check http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL

To find out if your card supported and to see if your problem has been already reported.

The desktop is a full gnome-2.14 , there is no KDE and no qt/KDE apps.

The default user name is phaeron and its password is also phaeron.

The root password is root.

The available editors are vim and nano.

Its built specifically to support arabic, with some patches and customizations. However, this is an ongoing process. It was spurred by arabbixs stagnation. Best of all just click on the keyboard applet or press alt+shift and you get an arabic keyboard layout.

"w3m -v" is the text only browser because it supports arabic ( along with bicon to bidi/shape properly ). Check here for the inspiration : http://www.eglug.org/node/1953

Also in gnome-terminal run a new session with the arabic profile and you will have full bidi and shaping thanks to arabeyes bicon.

Msameers arabic wordlist has been included in aspell and openoffice. Check here for the arabic wordlist : http://www.eglug.org/node/1976

You can logout from the desktop and choose arabic as the session language and then log in again. The desktop will be RTL and mostly in arabic. The reason this isnt made easier or more obvious is a lot of things still need translation or bugfixing. The infrastructure is there however.

The supported locales are : arabic, french, italian, german,and slovak.

The official gentoo installer is also included to help installing gentoo if you want.

G-Share is a PHP script that allows you to share your Gmail attachments with the world, it is a download center with files stored in your gmail account.

G-Share project uses a MySQL database to store important data such as categories, download count, visitors, gmail accounts, etc...

Invasores project was first designed as a proof of concept of which language would be faster to develop games.

Fantasdic is a client for the DICT protocol.
Main features:
- Can use multiple servers at the same time and filter databases.
- Includes a simple vocabulary learning tool.
- Scans clipboard.
- Keeps an history of searched words so you can go back and go forward easily.
- Supports i18n.