christian ubuntu released

[Ian]

Thanks for the input Michael but you have misjudged me thinking that
behaving like a bigot is one of my 'features'. This has nothing to do
with intolerance and bigotry, nothing whatsoever.

I am just a little taken aback that some folks would find it
worthwhile to produce a Christian version of Ubuntu. I can understand
people developing a version that suited an application, or perhaps
wanted to emphasise a feature-set that suited a niche. I know that
there are Gaming versions and other feature-sets will have their own
versions that differ in some way from the vanilla Ubuntu.

To develop a distro with the primary selection filter based on what
suited a religion really surprised me. I don't doubt their sincerity
in seeking that goal, it just surprised me. Perhaps I am acting a
little too worldly in my understanding of why people would develop a
distro. Passion for a cause based on belief just never seemed to me to
be enough rationale but obviously I am wrong in my assumptions.

Now that I have heard that some of the 'out' elements may have been
risque graphic files and an inclusion has been an electronic bible. I
can understand their filtering for those items but what other items
might they have classed as more important to be included to the
exclusion of other items they felt were less important. I don't
understand what their filter might accept/deny.

No, I wasn't going to suggest Evolution might have been a file left
out, others have already put that view ;)  I don't want to go there.

Another wonder of mine is if other distros have seen a similar filter
based on religion rather than selection on the basis of purpose or
suitability.

Is this a new trend that we might expect with Linux distros and
software being evaluated primarily of the basis of it being acceptable
to a religious or belief filter. What could such criteria be?

Seems almost blasphemous to think that way of something so global and
encompassing as Linux and the applications and software developed to
run on it.

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Cheers, Ian
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