Two somewhat interesting but unrelated topics. The antibiotics must be kicking in ;)

The Arabic support to Android arrived unofficially thanks to Ayman Al-Sanad who added the support to the OS. I tried to add the Arabic support to my HTC myTouch 3G (Magic 32B) and now I have my mobile read Arabic in most of the applications.

With the final release two months away and an alpha version available, it's time to look at OpenOffice.org 3.1's new features: eye candy, better charts, replying to notes in the margin, overlining, macros in Base, RTL improvements for Arabic and Hebrew, and (believe it or not) better sorting. Download and report any bugs you find.

Typical entities promote the same old agenda whereby GNU/Linux is managed by Microsoft and its cost advantage removed by Microsoft

We see articles all the time about a city or school district, counties and state entities adopting the use of Linux. Most often associated with cost cutting measures. They praise the "freedom" of Linux and the ability to roll out large numbers of installs at a much lower total cost.

In this article I discuss (in Arabic) why we should respect and support Red Hat, what Red Hat has done for free software in the Arabic language.
The article contains URLs to Red Hat contributions to Linux projects.
I hope this will be the start of multilingual FSDaily :) .

I personally like the num lock key to be switched on by default once I’ve logged in to KDE. For me, it’s much more useful to have access to the numeric keypad as, just that, a numeric keypad, than it is to have a glorified arrow key navigation pad.

"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 -- Since its release ten days ago, Stephen Fry's film "Happy Birthday to GNU" at www.gnu.org/fry has been viewed over a half-million times, and today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the availability of twenty-four translations including Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Hebrew, that have been prepared especially for this Saturd

A mindmap connecting entities that we regularly cover here and how they are connected