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Ubuntu Christian Edition 5.0 Beta
JimLynch writes "Back in 2006, when I was writing for ExtremeTech, I reviewed a version of Ubuntu with a religious theme: Ubuntu Christian Edition. At one point it seemed as though Ubuntu CE had been discontinued but I was pleased to note today that it has apparently been brought to life again and so I decided to do a full review Ubuntu CE 5.0 for DLR."
"Do not be unbelieving, but believing." And JimLynch answered and said to him "My Lord and my OS!" Jesusbuntu said to him, JimLynch, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
...I'll give up the naked pagan rituals, but the Torvalds and RMS idols stay!
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Like how in the review he gives it a con of 'Doesn't quite match the beauty of the Muslim distro'. BURN (in hell that is)!
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
Didn't you all hear about the fork in the Christian Ubuntu? Apparently, one of the developers sent in 95 patches, but they were rejected. Now there's a Protestant Christian Ubuntu. The main difference is that the Protestant version has no icons. Source
I really don't see the point of all these versions of ubuntu, the only thing that truly varies is applications which are bundled and those can always be installed separately.
there is a competing version out there as well.
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Does this thing run regular daemons, or have those all be exorcised?
Despite the warnings that one might be offended by the idea of a religious Linux distribution I decided I had the force of will to continue through and read the review. Turns out it was right, by the end of it, I was offended, there were no pictures of the Virgin Mary. I think I like the SE version better than the CE version, so much sexier.
One of the reasons I use Linux is that it is a secular operating system. I have bad experiences with religion and I have a problem with religious organizations tainting Linux and the secular philosophy of openness and transparency.
Religion is pro-censorship, pro-dogma, and the antithesis of everything that the Linux movement stands for in my opinion.
And what about Ichthux?
There, fixed that for you. For Chissake (cough), get your facts right.
Personally I can't see myself using it (I'd feel inhibited swearing at my computer), but the idea opens up a whole array of questions: what would other religious themed distros be like?
Note to the humour impaired: stop reading, NOW. I am only jesting - or trying to insult everyone simultaneously - take your pick..
Amish distro: black & white, terminal mode only (loved because it gets so much more work done on very basic kit)
Jewish distro: needs 7 monitors, which the supplier will gladly sell you
Calvinistic distro: will install Windows instead. Life is suffering.
Muslim distro: based on vast scientific knowledge well preceding other distro's but webcam support doesn't work for female users - a problem that slowly disappears.
Scientology distro: auto-edits Wikipedia entries, and the DVD is hard to use as it keeps hovering in the air - which makes for a great coaster.
etc etc. I need more coffee for this..
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That would be cool!
because I learn about stuff I never heard about before, everyday!
It took 3 years for this resurrection to occur.
I read Slashdot for the headlines, because the headlines, unlike the articles, are usually original and never duplicated
O.M.F.G!!!
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
I prefer the satanic edition http://ubuntusatanic.org/ muaaahhahhaahah :-)
Jesus, supernatural figure of lore, please take up my offering of Jesus wallpaper, and protect my computer from viruses in return.
Promote true freedom - support standards and interoperability.
The atheist demographic of Slashdot have shown remarkable restraint in the comments for this article so far. Of course, the tags are predictable, but there has been considerably less mockery, derision, and atheistic evangelism attempts than I would have suspected.
This does, however, represent a deeply apropos time to drop you a hint, kids.
You can only consider yourself to have truly left Christianity when neither Christianity or Satanism, conversely, manages to generate any emotional response from you whatsoever. Railing against either Christianity, or conversely embracing Satanism, are both a sure sign that, your current self-perception to the contrary, you are, in some way still mentally within the Church.
They should've called it Ubuntu NT - New Testament. Ubuntu CE, Ubuntu ME, Ubuntu NT... see what I'm getting at? What could Ubuntu XP be?