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Give an Internet Freedom Disk

Posted by kdawson on from the real-holiday-cheer dept.

An anonymous reader, perhaps the blogger himself, writes to tell us about a new blog aimed at getting non-techies excited over the idea of running from a Live CD. The blogger doesn't call it that, preferring instead "Internet Freedom Disk"; Linux is never mentioned. The submitter adds: "This is just a great gift to drop on your non-geek friends and potentially wake up a sleeping giant." Cheap, last-minute, and you can make them yourself. The blogger isn't selling anything; he provides links to Ubuntu and Knoppix Live CDs. Or pick your favorite.

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  1. Re:Give Bibles by mr_mischief · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm not saying the writing is any different, or that you'll like it any more, but there are Bibles in plainer English than the King James translation. Many of them are better translations, too. If you really want to read the Bible in plain English -- whether for your own beliefs, for literary purposes, in order to refute it, or any reason at all, you can go to your local religious bookstore and ask about the New International Version, a student edition Bible, or the Good News Bible.

  2. Re:Give Bibles by Petrushka · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The KJV of the Bible was translated from Latin. The Bible was written in Greek and Hebrew.

    Sorry, your first sentence is wrong: one of the key things that makes the KJV special is that it was, in fact, an extremely scholarly translation from Greek and Hebrew, not from Latin. I can't read Hebrew, but can attest that its rendition of Greek is generally pretty precise.