SABILY 9.04 - UBUNTU MUSLIM EDITION

The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of latest Ubuntu Muslim Edition now known as Sabily 9.04, codename "Taibah". Sabily 9.04 is available as a Live DVD (so you can test it without installing anything on your computer), with 3 versions:

• Small version (935 MB): contains the main Sabily packages (artwork, islamic applications) and Arabic support
• Full version (1.4 GB): same as above plus multimedia, education and miscellaneous packages (see the full list here: http://tinyurl.com/dfwvgk)
• Full version with recitations (2.8 GB): same as above plus Quran recitations provided by www.versebyversequran.com: Muhammad Siddeeq al-Minshawi, Huzify, Sa’ad al-Ghamadi and Mishary Rashed Alafasy. Note: this version is useful if you are not connected to the Internet (all Sabily versions provide online recitations)

A CD (184 MB) containing the Sabily packages is also available if you want to convert a standard Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) installation to Sabily.

What's new in this release:

1. "hijra" application: Hijri Islamic Calendar tray applet
2. mus-haf Othman application : Othman Quran Browser which displays Quranic text in Othmani script style
3. What's changed:
4. new distro name ("Sabily") and all artwork updated to use this name (new usplash, gdm theme, gdm login screen)
5. Thwab can now open Shamela books

Main features:

1. Parental control tool installed (WebStrict)
2. Zekr 0.7.2 (Quran study tool), able to play Quran recitations
3. Prayer times apps: Minbar and Firefox 'Pray Times' add-on
4. Thwab (encyclopaedia)
5. Custom artwork: usplash, login screen, Islamic wallpapers and theme.
6. Full support for Arabic language.
7. The full version of the DVD contains multimedia, educational and many other useful software

Download Sabily 9.04 here.

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LINUX FIRE WALL - GUFW 0.20.7

LINUX GUFW firewall-0.20.7 

Security in Internet connection or Local Area network, we need the system that can maintain the security of our system from virus, malware and others attacks. 

This can be done with by installing Fire wall. In Linux Operating System distributions, especially Ubuntu, the process of creating a firewall using iptables sintax can be difficult for some users. 

Using Gufw can be the Solutions for this, Gufw is a graphical application based firewall that is easy to use. For back-end applications, application package Gufw use ufw in the Netfilter firewall management . 

To start a fire wall, you check it on the firewall option enabled in the start page gufw, then you only need to allow / deny various incoming connections in the network. 

On the page RULE, you can simply choose which port and protocol are allowed (allow traffic) or prohibited (deny traffic) on the host computer.

Rule can also be used to Limit IP Port (Protecting Against brute force login attacks). In addition you can also activate the option ufw enable log to record all the firewall that is in progress. 

Gufw is an application that is right for you who want to strengthen the security of your computer system by using a firewall. 

More info @ http://gufw.tuxfamily.org 

GPL License 

Dependencies ufw> = 0.23.2, Python-glade2> = 2.13 

Minimum specifications:

Processor Pentium IV

Hard Drive 10 Mb 

Memory 256 Mb

Linux Spam Filter Protection 

Linux spam filter-the protection

Linux spam filter-the protection 

Do You feel angry when virus and spam attacks your email/email server? nothing make people feel chapfallen other than to receive spam and viruses. If you are an currently an email administrator, then this can be the beginning of a bad career for you if you let it. 

Spam and virus attacks that can lead to ongoing performance and decreased even hang. Spam is one of the main causes of utmost network resource consumption, resource CPU, hard drive space, and others. 

One practical solution to avoid problems is to upgrade the hardware or use a separate e-mail servers, spam filters and virus filters on a different machine. 

One of the linux distro that can be used as reference to build a Linux server with Spam filter, such as technical scheme above is Ubuntu Linux distributions. This is because the Ubuntu Linux distributions LTS Server edition has a package Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with Dovecot application as POP 3. While to filter spam and virus filters can use Untangle Gateway Applications. 

Required two computers, which is installed on the computer first mail server with the Ubuntu LTS server edition (or can use another Linux distro), and on the second computer is installed Untangle Application. 

Each computer has two network cards, one port with the settings given the public IP Address and another port given IP Local Address and connect between computers in parallel scheme, Technicaly, port 1 on a computer as the entrance of the Internet, and Port 2 connect to Port 3 on the computer B and Port 4 distribute results filter through to the destination on LAN Network. 

So with Applications Spam Blocker that act as filters for spam and virus filters as Virus Blocker with Untangel Applications Reports for the reporting system is said to be enough as a spam filter system using the Linux OS.

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Most Popular Linux Distribution

Today Linux has become a Reputable and dependable Operating System. More and more people begin to use Linux for their Computing life.

There are so many Variants on Linux Distribution; every new Distribution comes derivate from old ones.

Now, we can easily get one of them and use them with all ease. For us who has a little knowledge about Linux Command, we don’t have to worry anymore, because today Linux come with a great and beautiful GUI. Even on installation process, it becomes so easy.

You can get a great information about Linux at www.distrowatch.com and there you can choose from hundreds of Linux distribution.

Here is the most Popular Linux Distribution:

1. Ubuntu
2. openSUSE
3. Mint
4. Fedora
5. Debian

These are ranked by most used by people, so you can have a great support from other users.