Hi Zach,

There actually already is a Muslim edition. I reviewed it back when I worked for ExtremeTech. That review is at:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2347168,00.asp

They did a great job making it Islamic. I know that it’s not your cup of tea but other people do appreciate it.

I think there’s plenty of room for religious distributions as well as non-religious ones. One of the nicest things about Linux is that there’s pretty much a distribution for everybody.

Freedom and choice are wonderful things.

Awww c-mon! Gaurdian!!?? Blocking software? For the love of all that is open! This is GNU/Linux, people. Now that is what I call blaspheming. At what point did someone decide religion has a place in operation systems. The only possible place were religion could possibly be more irrelevant is in science class. Thumbs down to Christian and Satanic Editions. Furthermore a premptive thumbs down to the imminent Wiccan, Muslim, Ganesh, and what ever magical mythology edition you kooky philosophers can come up with.

Greg wrote:

I wonder when will Ubuntu Christian Edition change its name to something other than Ubuntu like all other flavors did, including the Muslim Edition.

There are no plans to change the name. The idea has always been to be a special edition of Ubuntu.

Jereme
Ubuntu CE Project Lead

I wonder when will Ubuntu Christian Edition change its name to something other than Ubuntu like all other flavors did, including the Muslim Edition.

Revision needed wrote:

@ Praxis:
Figured someone should clarify this ambiguous comment regarding child pornography. The developer of this Christian version of Ubuntu found a hard drive in the trash and reported it to the authorities after discovering its content had violent (info on school shootings) and pornographic content. So, I would like to encourage this project and all the other awesome Ubuntu related projects going around.

Yes, thank you for clarifying that for those who did not know the full details. It was a disturbing and very traumatic event for me. I do not appreciate Praxis taking it out of context and using it against the project. I shared the event with those on the forums because I have always lived my life like an open book. I also wanted to explain what was going on.

Thanks again for helping to explain the situation.

Jereme

To install e-Sword, you have to disable dansguardian first as it would prevent you from downloading exe file. May be I would try to automatically dsable dansguardian when launching e-Sword installer.

The dansguardian setting are default setting from dansguardian packager. May be I would change the default setting if people think ti is more appropriate.

Now I am thinking to make it easy for user to share internet connection to the LAN with filtering on, using transparent proxy and dhcp. May be I will come to that for karmic release.

As for openoffice, I really want to keep it, but as I put 700 mb as the limit, it become imposible for me to keep. Unless we move to DVD iso image.

For church administration software, it should be build on LAMP, not desktop. The solution is I am thinking to build a live cd “light desktop” based on LAMP, so that I could include the church administration software. But may be this would be release under “Ubuntu CE server version”. And people would be able to install server right out of the box, with church administration and even church webhosting ready. But again, it is still just a dream, not a confirm plan yet.

DK

@ Praxis:
Figured someone should clarify this ambiguous comment regarding child pornography. The developer of this Christian version of Ubuntu found a hard drive in the trash and reported it to the authorities after discovering its content had violent (info on school shootings) and pornographic content. So, I would like to encourage this project and all the other awesome Ubuntu related projects going around.

Wowww…….. I am not an Ubuntu user, but now I will install Ubuntu CE
Are there someting similar for Mandriva? I only found gnomesword

quote: “. I would like to see a little more, like maybe some good church administration software, Open Office pre-packaged vice Abiword, and some other things.”

Yes, that is correction, in addition to the default customization and applications it would be also important to include lyrics projection software like Openlp( openlp.org ), the version 2 of the project was under development and was based on QT thus cross-platform. Church administration software would be great. I really love E-sword, unfortunately no native Linux version. Current version of wine cannot run e-sword. A show-stopper if you used e-sword heavily.

I ran it, I like it. It is a keeper, and I am not *bumtu fan <
Just have to learn to tweak the "Guardian".