[CS-FSLUG] Ubuntu Christian Edition 1.0

Raphaël Pinson raphink at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 08:37:14 CDT 2006


Hi,

I hope to get to talk to this guy really, since I'm also from France and
really willing to see if we can work together, he doing the GNOME side and I
doing the KDE one :)

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Raphaël


On 8/16/06, xxx xxxx <cyberdamon at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have spoken (via email) with the creator of this new Christian linux and
> and he is an evangelical born again christian from France. His desire is
> to
> give something to the Christian community. He was devoting his time and
> skills to make something nice and benificial for other followers of
> Christ,
> out of his own heart.
> Mash, No One said that the distro was a living breathing Christian, what
> they mean is that it is geared towards Christians. The tools and
> enviroment
> are designed to be of benifit for Christians.
>
> Let's not accuse this person or bash him for using his God given talents
> to
> serve and edify the Body of Christ.
>
> Thanks Don Parris for your encouraging words.
>
> Don Tope
>
> >From: Don Parris <dcparris at carolina.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users
> >Group."<christiansource at ofb.biz>
> >To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users
> >Group."<christiansource at ofb.biz>
> >Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Ubuntu Christian Edition 1.0
> >Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:45:16 -0400
> >
> >On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:04 +0100, 'Mash wrote:
> > > I never understand this sort of thing ?
> > > What is the purpose, or how can a distro be Christian ?
> > > Are each bit of software vetted for it's authenticity in the
> > > developers love of Jesus ?
> > >
> >
> >If you're pulling my leg, you got me.
> >
> >The point is a distro aimed at Christians.  I honestly can't figure out
> >why that would be so difficult to grasp.  I have been pushing (for at
> >least 2 years) the idea of a GNU/Linux distro that is essentially
> >pre-configured with all of the software a church would need to get up
> >and running with Bible study, church management, and lyrics projection
> >software.  Educational software should be made available as well.
> >
> >The networking stuff should all just work out of the box, or at least
> >have the step-by-step instructions to configure whatever can't be
> >pre-configured.
> >
> >Ubuntu is the primary distro for the Libre Software Solution Stack
> >(www.thefreelyproject.us/wiki).
> >
> > > Hmmm for all we know there could be a couple of UNIX tools that were
> > > developed or maintained by some real "riske" characters. Have you ever
> > > seen photos of the DebConf ?
> > > Some developers are scary scary people. All sorts of witchcraft and
> > > blasphemy ;)))
> > >
> >
> >I think developers are scary people, but only because they think so
> >darned logically. ;-)
>
>
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