[CS-FSLUG] Mac to Linux: Bible Software

[Timothy Butler]

Hi guys,
	Especially since we have several people making the move to Linux from  
Mac on here, I'm wondering what you guys are using for Bible software?  
Thinking about Jason's transition, I was thinking about what I would  
need to do if I wanted to switch back to Linux as well (I'm not  
switching, in case you are wondering, but hypothetically).

	Basically there are two things that seem like big stumbling blocks  
for myself, maybe three or four.[1] The biggest, perhaps, is  
Photoshop. GIMP is nice, but Photoshop it ain't. But everyone knows  
about the discussion on Photoshop. What about Bible software. One  
thing I struggled with the whole time I was on Linux, and this was  
before I became nearly as dependent on Bible software as I am now, is  
that SWORD-based Bible software lacks a lot of key ingredients --  
major modern translations (ESV, NIV, NRSV are the ones I depend on for  
seminary work, NLT and TNIV sometimes for other stuff), scholarly  
Greek manuscripts, or even unscholarly manuscripts with accents, lack  
of quality scholarly lexicons, and the like. I know we have some  
scholars on here, what do you use?

	I've fallen in love with Accordance over the last year, and bought a  
lot of great modules for it. I similarly know a lot of Windows folks  
who love Logos... (which is coming to the Mac, it'd be nice if they'd  
support Linux too and create a true cross-platform offering.) SWORD is  
nice, but I never found it all that much better for my own purposes  
than using a site like Bible Gateway.

	Thoughts?

	-Tim
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[1] The third item is iLife -- I use iMovie/iDVD/iPhoto pretty much.  
Then there is Word:mac -- I use its lecture recording mode, which  
integrates audio recordings of lectures keyed to the exact text that  
was being typed at during that point in the recording.

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