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بسم اللہ الرحمٰن الرحیم Pak Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that we have been working on for quite some time. We have just announced the first stable release of Pak Linux this Friday, codenamed Jinnah. The user interface is in Urdu language. We have released GNOME and Xfce editions and now we are ...

Taj Nastaleeq is the first ligature based free and open source Nastaleeq font for the Urdu script (The terms "ligature based" and "character based" are mostly used to indicate the dominant technique in the font. For example, Nafees Nastaleeq is referred to as "character base...

I wish there was an application that would destroy all the data on the USB flash drive if the user failed to provide the correct password (after 3 tries). How much fun would that have been!
(Warning! Don't take this post seriously. )

Do you always get read error even when using different USB ports?

I think the partitioning scheme that lambda proposed is better. Using more than these three partitions is not necessary.

I have noticed that the character encoding used on the forum pages has been changed to iso-8859-1 from utf8 which makes Urdu text look like some alien language. Please fix that.

There have been Urdu versions of Slax and Ubuntu. Here they are: Urdu Slax (2nd version): http://makki.urducoder.com/?p=541 Urdu Ubuntu: http://makki.urducoder.com/?p=570 The interesting part is that more than 90 percent of the work (including translation as well as other work) has been done by a si...

So any suggestion how I should have written this sentence to make it "confusion-free"?

Muhammad Saad wrote:Start promoting the use of free and open file formats.

Thanks for the information.

Although I do suspect that I already knew most of it. But I won't argue with you.

(Just kidding. Please don't get mad. )

tell me, which of the following are free and open file formats: avi, mov, ogg. It seems like you want to tell me something I do not know. If this is the case then please tell me clearly. However, if you only want me to choose one of the options then I choose OGG on the basis of what I have learnt s...

lambda wrote:file format != codec.

So I cannot use the word "file format" when the file is audio or video?

faruqkhan wrote:Now tell me wht to do.....?

Start promoting the use of free and open file formats.

Waalaikum-us-Salam, First of all, I need to point out that you should not use so many abusive words. I know that you have had lots of problems with Windows but this is not the right way. I can suggest a few applications that I know well enough. GIMP as a photoshop alternative. InkScape for Vector Gr...

its better to verify you hardware and OS is it 64 bit or 32 bit FYI http://serversguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-check-if-your-process-is-64-bit.html Assalam-o-Alaikum, I read this post and am curious about what "lm" means; in order to understand why it is specific to 64 bit hardware. Ca...

Assalam-o-Alaikum lambda,

What do you think about foremost? Will it work in Misam Shah's case?