Most offensive thing I've seen all day

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:23:41PM -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 16:51 -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> > http://www.christianubuntu.com
> 
> I don't find this offensive, nor would I find any other religious
> derivative offensive.  However, I don't understand that rationale behind
> creating an entirely new distribution just to install some extra
> programs by default.

Yeah, the page only seems to list GnomeSWORD. Seems easier just to
install plain ubuntu and apt-get install the single remaining package

I think the goal is to expand the available offerings, though. I could
see the likely audience for a distro such as this adding and/or
developing for inclusion, such items as scripture memory aids,
religious-themed artwork and startup/desktop sounds and usplash, etc. If
that's the sort of direction they're planning on, then a separate distro
makes some sense.

(Actually, according to their site [now that I've looked a bit closer],
it's /not/ a separate distro of Ubuntu: more like a modification of the
install CD.)

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Micah J. Cowan
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