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[mohamed at farag.org]

Quoting Tamer Mekhimar <mikamer2002 at yahoo.com>:

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> Good Morning Everybody,

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> I am a new user to Linux OS. I also have some questions about its   
> compatibility with other software esp. chatting program and Arabic   
> reviewing.

Chatting programs are there .. safer, flexible, and you can easily ask  
for new features to be added, and will find programmers listen to you  
and your feature will be there in next releases!

Some of the greatest:

aMSN
http://www.amsn-project.net/download.php

Pidgin
http://www.pidgin.im/

Kopete
http://kopete.kde.org/

Skype

and more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_instant_messaging_clients

All support Arabic text as I remember..and many support multiple  
identities (under same protocol, like more than one msn account  
running at same time), and also multiple protocols (so you sign-in in  
Yahoo, Google, ICQ, etc. using same program).

  that is to say that if i am writing a doc in  Arabic can
> I have the feature to check spelling. In Word I press F7 for that.   
> The other thing I have seen the Linux OS and I really like to use   
> and be expert with such OS. Can you help me in that regard.

Spell checkers are not an easy software to develop..it needs huge work  
of linguists, localization engineers, dictionaries, etc.
I am not sure if there is an open source Arabic spell checker in  
development or not, but don't let this single feature discourage you  
from using Linux...

There sure will be one there sooner or later..and there might be there  
but needs some search on the web..for example: an individual  
programmer might did it but we don't know..and he didn't announce  
about it!

One more
> question about the command line and the terms like shell and kernel.  
>  What are they mean?

Command line is like DOS prompt. you just type the command on your  
keyboard on a black screen (the shell) and the system executes the  
command. It's not hard to learn. Just few English orders to your  
computer :)

Salam
Mohamed

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> Tamer
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