Hi,
this news may be interesting for Linux users, as Kiwix 0.8 currently only available for this Operating system.
>From version 0.8, Kiwix will be a pure ZIM file player. ZIM is a new open format adapted to store multimedia contents, especially HTML pages. You can take a look to the project http://www.openzim.org.
I have already build a few ZIM files with different languages. Currently, v0.8 of the soft and the ZIM are still in dev. status but rendering is good and search engine efficient.
You can check out the binary here:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/bin/kiwix-0.8-beta1+xulrunner.tar.bz2
... and ZIM files here:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/
You can especially test the 30.000 articles big ZIM file in English with well selected articles from the WP1 projects:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_alpha6.zim
Feedback are welcome. Windows version will come in the worth case at the end of the year.
Regards
Emmanuel
PS: If people are motivated to help me preparing ZIM files in other languages, please contact me.