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GNU/Linux for Christians: Kubuntu-based Ichthux Beta5 is out
Developers from the Debian, Ubuntu, and Sword Projects have been working since 2005 on Ichthux, a GNU/Linux distribution aimed at Christians and ministries. What initially began as a Custom Debian Distribution project is now a Kubuntu-based project, and is progressing nicely. The team is releasing Ichthux beta5, with an eye toward releasing Ichthux 6.09, their first major release on 10 September. Ichthux Beta 5 will include BibleTime (i18n), a KDE-based Bible study program, and KioSword, which offers Sword integration with Konqueror. The Sword langauge packages, as well as the culmus fonts with Frank Ruehl activated offer solid WLC support. Kdict is configured with Easton's Bible Dictionary and Hitchcock's Bible Names dictionary. And console lovers will find verse and bible-kjv at the tap of a few keys. Ichthux may just be the first distribution to release with web content filtering utility Willow-NG. Willow-NG uses a bayesian classifier to 'learn' what is good or bad through training. Kopete gets an improved animated emoticons theme, and the desktop is adorned with the Ichthux logo - the Christian fish symbol. The logo also serves as Konqueror's throbber. Ichthux can be downloaded from the Ichthux website, or can be installed from within your K/X/Ubuntu distribution. Installing in this manner will replace the user's current installation, so it might be wise to install via CD for most. Some folks are stepping forward to offer mirrors as well. Matheteuo Christian Fellowship will be hosting the ISO images on their website in the near future. Another source has a terabyte worth of bandwidth to offer. Lead developer, Raphaël Pinson, has good reason to believe in the strength of the Ichthux team. They not only know software, they know Greek and Hebrew, too. "Our strong point is that we have both Debian and Ubuntu developers who can really act within these distros directly and move forward with efficient technical solutions. Our team is strong and dedicated to the open-source community as well as to the Christian Linux one. Most of us have been contributing to FLOSS for more than a year, and we are experienced in distribution building. Ichthux is on the move - God be praised for it." References |
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Even Christians have a choice
Now if I could just find a decent multi-monitor handling song/presentation projection program for linux maybe I could convert our projection comp off of Win2k.....
Our projection program (Worship Him - commercial sadly, and we can't upgrade considering the new version requires XP) itself would probably run under wine, though I haven't tried it, but it also needs to launch Powerpoint viewer for presentations.
I tried making it launch Impress, but Impress doesn't handle launching in view show mode very well yet (namely when the show is done it goes back to OO instead of closing as it should), and it doesn't handle the second monitor right (the program tosses it to the second monitor as it's launching, but it moves itself back to the first one).
:(
Matheteuo.org Mirror Is Now Active
Uhm... are we having mental problems?
14 earlier comments in the full thread.
Spread the Gospel, trust in God, use your copyright to make sure you get all your money. The Church should be the ones promoting openness. I know of a church with 15 members that got a letter from an attorney demanding that they pay for the songs they sing or they would be taken to court. Definitely a conflict with the principles of the Linux community.
Myths make good tools for teaching, but going further than that is irrational.
"I tried to upgrade to Windows Vista, Father, but it complained that I didn't have enough memory."
"Fear not, my son, God will provide the RAM."
Your scenario is flawed: Any person with a Faith as deep as that would not even consider going with Vista. Vista is the spawn of XP. Even in its name, MS-Windows XP is revealed to be the Anti-Christ. Remember the codename for XP before it was released? Cairo => Chi Rho (the Greek names of the letters X P). XP has been the shorthand for Christ for almost 2,000 years. Therefore, no Christian of True Faith would touch MS-Windows XP or Vista with a ten foot pole.
Wow man, that is going a little far and wide into the depths of history just to make a point..
I doubt that more than 1% of Christians know or would make such a correlation, and they all probably already use XP anyway. I respect your reasoning but you realize that your argument will probably keep only 5 to 10 people on the planet from using Microsoft software.
Personally, I don't use XP or Vista because they fall short on the S5 Evaluation ...
Scott's Head
(It went right over Scott's head). Sorry Scott. The devil made me do it. :-D
Like my grandfather used to say, "The only difference between Genius and Stupidity is, that Genius has its limits."
I am living proof of it..
LOL
http://www.zejn.si/~natan/666.html
(or one of the things like that)
;-)
Don cha just love numerology ):D
The real problem is there are just too damned many candidates for the role...
Bill may be evil but at least he isn't an idiot too. Bill can do things like use decent grammar, possibly know what he is talking about...
Some more to consider: Zionix, Mormonix, Krishnix (sounds like cereal), Jehovux, Xenux (Scientology's distro...it uses two metal cylinders instead of a keyboard and mouse), Amnix (formerly Amishbuntu...the only distro that runs with no electricity)
I assume $fortune in Christian Linux has turned the -o (offensive) option off anyway...
You forget, in the Ioanian Epistles (John I,II, and III) there is more than one anti-christ (anyone who claims the authority of Christ for himself is an anti-christ). And in Revelation there are two beasts. So you should be able to see that Bill G is one (with 666) and W is the other (Kind of interesting that W is actually the Greek letter omega - as if he's trying to supplant the true Alpha and Omega.)
Quoting:(For the Bill-believers)"Billievers"?
Quoting:And in Revelation there are two beasts.Would this then be the first mention of two backs?
So according to Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu is a church, so ugh if you really want to avoid church, you are simply going to have to use a different Linux Distribution.
quote:: And in Revelation there are two beasts.
Would this then be the first mention of two backs? ::quote
Naughty Revelations, I'm just glad no ones gone in for quoting some of the X rated text from Solomon. I don't think that sort of thing would be allowed on a family site like this.
I'm not sure though that Ubuntu, the Satanic Edition, is really all that Satanic, as it seems more of a kitsch Christian vision of Santanism, and seems not at all like the true Satanist idea of Satan - "The only law shall be 'Do no harm'". Actually that would probably be a pretty good description of Linux and FOSS. Maybe Linux and FOSS is really Satanic.
"We don’t know God uses, but the Vatican uses Linux"
Quoting:Some fun videos on ScobleShow today. First, the geeky “Sister” behind the Vatican’s Website. She breaks all sorts of “geek stereotypes” in my head. We don’t know the OS that God uses, but the Vatican uses Linux, she reveals. This was a little conversation right after her talk at LIFT. She’s an interesting person because she comes at technology from a much more spiritual/faith-based perspective than most of the geeks I hang around with do. At about 20 minutes into this interview she talks about the tools and technology that the Vatican uses.http://scobleizer.com/2007/02/19/the-geeky-sister-behind-vat... http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1363/meet-the-t...
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