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Reply With QuoteA great article.
Thank you.
I am already viral spreading this to all the IT guys I know
As we all know, the next incarnation of Mac OSX code named Snow Leopard is slated to hit the market sometime in september this year. Although we are not going to see a lots of bells and whistle in term of new graphical user interface (GUI), there are tones of new features and enhancements which have been baked under the hood by Apple engineers.
Among the most important things can the Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) which make it possible for software to take advantage of multi-core processor and OpenCL which allows the system and other software to use the unused power of graphic card can be mentioned. These together with the re-written Finder in Cocoa API will result in a far more stabil and reliable operating system.
The Snow Leopard will have 64-bit addressing which means the system can handle a large amount of RAM and increase the security at the same time that it is backward compatible with 32-bit application.
Another feature is the support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in the Mail, AddressBook and iCal. Snow Leopard is the only desktop operating system with "out of the box" support for Exchange Server 2007 according to "Ars Technica".
But for us the Middle east users although these improvements are of very importance, the most interesting question is whether Snow Leopard will bring any changes when it comes to dealing with our Script system i.e. Arabic writing system or not.
My colleague Ali Rastegar at IRMUG has gone throw the system on excursion to find out if the OS will bring any changes in this regards. He has written an article to present his finding and published it on IRMUG site. As this may be of interset for other ME users, I asked him to translate his own article into English which he kindly accepted. Attached is the short review he has written and I hope you will find it interesting.
Best regards,
Al-Irani
Last edited by Magnus; 29th July 2009 at 07:47.
A great article.
Thank you.
I am already viral spreading this to all the IT guys I know
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I sense this being important for Shufflegazine's upcoming Snow Leopard coverage
Interesting are these info AlIrani. I do hope we shall see the end of right-to-left issues soon. I know Adobe is too tuning-up Arabic support in their applications for CS5. We need Microsoft to follow suit in MS Office and we will have nothing to complaint about, well at least where Middle Eastern scripts are concerned!
But still it's not possible to put OS X into an all Arabic interface. Apple is really behind in that respect. Great to see the iPhone has full Arabic support.Originally Posted by Zaid Al Hilali
Think again! Local Apple Dealer had made a tremendous job in Arabizing Mac OSX. Apple themselves had developed Arabic Mac OS 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 in the eighties and nineties. With a bit of encouragement they may do it again!
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Great, what a pleasant surprise. Now that you mention it I've seen older Macs (eMac?) and older with full Arabic interface and they were the best for Arabic word processing. I don't know why that changed. Thank you for the link. I would love to fully Arabise my new MacBookThink again! Local Apple Dealer had made a tremendous job in Arabizing Mac OSX. Apple themselves had developed Arabic Mac OS 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 in the eighties and nineties. With a bit of encouragement they may do it again!
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Note there are issues with these packages when you need to update your system later.
Currently they don't support 10.5.7 or above or 10.6.x
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That was going to be my next question. When will this package be ready for 10.6? That organisation's website does not have any direct contact details
Even if there was contact info they most likely would not give you any specific info.
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