Richard M. Stallman (“RMS”), founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, confirmed his visit to Palestine after receiving an invitation from the free software and open source communities in Palestine.
Stallman’s visit to "Israeli"-occupied Palestine means a lot to Palestinian techies, free software advocates, and supporter...
There is no doubt that Arabic fonts are one of the most beautiful fonts in the world, however digital fonts optimized for the digital screens (PCs, Tablets, Mobile) we use are behind the rich arrays of Arabic fonts that we have offline.
Shasha Font project (shash means screen in Arabic) comes to offer a hand in creating Arabic fonts that is ...
There is no doubt that open source movement is taking over the world, 72% web sites run on open source server Apache, wordpress the open source blogging platform based on PHP/MYSQL is the #1 blogging platform in the world. Major sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Google on open source software such as PHP, Python, Ruby and Java.
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There are a number of pure Arabic distributions for the free and open source operating system Linux, Ojuba is one of the most recognized one.
Few days ago the 4th edition of Ojuba has been launched under the name "Riyadh", the most notable features are support for 64 bit CPUs, a personal lock folder for encrypted files, activating 3G connec...
Updated: ArabCrunch sources who are close to the 3 telecom operators in Saudi Arabia confirmed just now the deal has been made between RIM and Saudi Arabia, BlackBerry service to continue in the kingdom. Official Announcement most likely tomorrow, UAE to follow.
Yesterday, Saudi Arabia's BlackBerry (BB) ban went into effect, but users report...
As HTML 5 is starting to be a new web standard, Adobe flash platform which is used to add animation & video and interactivity to Web pages, is struggling to stay relevant. However there are still millions of flash developers around the world.
For web developers, firebug a firefox add-on is a must as it is used modify web page's HTML on the ...
We waited for few days and nobody wrote about it, so we moved on and broke the news with a guest post from Abdulrahman Idlbi as we were upset when SourceForge the world’s largest open source software hosting website, blocked around 171 million people from Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba: from downloading open source software, a com...
Update: SourceForge Simi Unblocks Syria, Sudan,Iran, N.Korea & Cuba- Freedom Loving Admins: Unblock Now:
Following Linkedin move of unblocking Syria after ArabCrunch reported the incident ( and kept it against Sudan ), we heard different reports that U.S. Federal government officials are preparing to waive some of the sancti...
Founded in Alexandria, Egypt in 2007 vimov ( Vimov on ArabCurnch.NET) is another example of the startup that mixx its business between developing software for others (out sourcing) developing open source software and proprietary software.
For developers:
vimov has started its own product releases with "aviate" : a free software to help deve...
Creative Commons (CC) the equivalent body to open source software foundations but for content has finally launched its Amman chapter.
The launch was part of CC first Salon in Jordan and in the Arab world which took place Talal Abu Ghazaleh business Forum.
The forum also focused on how CC could be applied to business, artistic, entrepreneurial a...
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