[Linux4christians] not Jesux

[Chris Moore]

To echo the last comment, I am very glad that such a site exists.

After having looked around all over the place for something resembling a 
christian *nix presence and having found not very much outside of the 
SWORD project, I ran across the site for Jesux about half a year ago or 
so.  (to find just go to google and search...) Since then I have been 
kind of wanting to do something similar and it happened that at this 
time as part of the practical education component of my bible school I 
have to do some "project development" and have decided to finally put 
some feet to these thoughts. So her I will introduce my thoughts and I 
was wondering if I could get some feedback.

Let me start by saying that I want to seperate myself immediatly 
(although I brought the association) from Jesux.  As fundamental as 
anyone can get, there are pragmatic limits, and as my head pastor says, 
"If it's not practical, it's not spiritual".  Without getting into a 
large theological debate, let us move forward in what we CAN do as steps 
in the right direction.

First of all, I think there is a great need for Linux geared towards the 
Body of Christ.  I think of how much money churches can save by not 
needing to upgrade their hardware, while still making use of the most 
recent developments in the tech field, etc. etc. (you guys know the 
benefits of Linux, or you probably wouldn't have found this site.) I 
also am not experienced enough or have the time to do a full distro 
including it's maintenance single-handedly which leads me to design 
point number one:

Icthux <ICTHUX (imagine the fish logo for me okay ;) as a "para-distro". 
My current thought is as follows, get together all the good 
software/content that would be useful for a church/christian 
orginization/christian home user(?) and release it as source on an 
iso... Then it can be used with any distro (and with a little tweaking, 
any *nix OS).  Further, I will do some research into a good base distro 
and create a fork that has Icthux already applied (Exodux is my current 
name of choice, making it easy for Christians to experience freedom from 
microsof^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcorporate control etc. ;-)

Any thoughts?

(NB that whole para-distro thing after some thought reminds me of ximian 
gnome if you need some good way of visualizing it...)

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         Chris Moore
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