[CS-FSLUG] Thanks for the help
edoc7
edoc7 at verizon.net
Sun Sep 24 20:53:41 CDT 2006
>> Also, Are there just two Bible programs available for Ubuntu? Gnomesword
>> for the gnome environment and Bibletime for the KDE environment? Those
>> are the only two that I have been able to find so far. I wish that
>> e-sword were available for Ubuntu... I've heard that some people have
>> successfully installed it via wine, but I've kinda' given up on wine at
>> the moment.
>
> Those are the best native to Linux and Unix. I use Bibletime on my
> FreeBSD box. For the longest time it was broken in FreeBSD, but works
> now. GnomeSword hasn't worked in FreeBSD since GNOME 2.2, and nobody
> wants to fix it. There's also BibleDesktop (aka JSword), which runs in
> Java. If you have trouble with Jedit, you may have trouble with JSword.
> There really isn't anything else except the Sword-based stuff in OpenSource.
You might ask on the Puppy Linux forum.
There were several threads there about getting
Bible apps to run and I think JSword was among
them.
There were also some threads re. Java and Puppy
and last I recall, and am experiencing, they seem
to have worked up a stable Java solution.
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