There is, in fact, a Muslim version of Ubuntu. Google for “Sabily” and you can find it.

Sorry you didn’t like the review, it sounds like this distro definitely isn’t for you. Thanks for the feedback though.

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.

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

@ 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

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

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.

Hopefully, in time it will be something Christians can really rally around. I would like to see it to be honest. We’d have less technology outlays in the church if we could get a solid Linux system up and running. CE just isn’t quite there yet without the administration software. I’m hopeful though!

I should say that despite these comments, I am running CE on my desktop at home and I’m enjoying it.

Personally, I prefer the Ubuntu Satanic Edition, myself, Linux for the damned.
http://ubuntusatanic.org/news/

Check out their latest release, Ubuntu Satanic Edition 666.6 (Jesus’ Jugular).

I understand the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is working on a release, as well, all hail his noodly appendages.

Thank Dog I’m an atheist.

As of Dansguardian behaving “not so well”… One has to tweak the whitelist in “advanced settings”… Or disable it if it is too much of a burden…

Very good Xiphos & very good Wine e-Sword !

The Bible Trivia is new; that is pretty cool. I love being able to read a quick verse as soon as I login, and if I am ready for more right then, I can dig in with one of the study tools, or I can start up the study tools when I can specifically set aside some quiet time for study.

Overall, this system is worthwhile for someone who wants a readily prepared desktop system with Christian based software tools. The addition of Dan’s Guardian, in spite of the over zealous default settings, is a great thing to have available. You can shut off the filtering if you need access and do not have the time to fool around with it, then you can enable the filtering and/or tune it up when you have the time to hone it. You can also filter at certain times of day and not others, so it is a handy tool if you invest a little time in it.

I happen to love that picture, and I also enjoy having convenient Bible verses and tools available to me. I install some, but not all, of the same tools on my main system.

I found this particular release to be a bit rough around the edges; nothing terrible, just not quite up to the refinement that I enjoyed in the previous release before Jerome took a break to work on other projects.

I think this particular release is OK, but I really liked the last one, old as it had become. I finally replaced it not too long ago on my old Compaq/HP D530 test system.

I think this one could be a keeper for those who already like Ubuntu systems. For me, I will wait to install it until the guys have refined it a bit more once again; meanwhile, I will play with it in Virtualbox OSE.