[Linux4christians] not Jesux

[Linc Fessenden]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Chris Moore wrote:

> 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?

Sounds Great!
This is what I had hoped to get accomplished with the website - to make a
repository of Christian projects, information, and software immediately
available and centralized for the Christian Linux/Unix user.  I am *ALL
FOR* a Chritian distro.  I'll help any way I can!