Tuesday August 29th 2006, 12:00 pm
Filed under: Linux
Filed under: Linux
Ichthux is an operating system aimed at Christian users. It is based on Kubuntu in order to provide the best desktop environment of the moment, together with Christian programs and settings. For a brief graphical tour of Ichthux, check out some screenshots.
Ichthux | Linux for Christians
Have to say I’m not sure about the name, but the concept is good. Still, it will have to impress on usability to justify the “Yet Another Distro” attitude that is starting to worry me about the Linux community. How newcomers decide on a distro is beyond me. Perhaps I was lucky to find Linux when I did when it was Red Had, Suse or Mandrake…
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Thanks for this nice post.
Well the reason to call Ichthux an OS, or distro, is so people don’t get confused. Ichthux is a distro the same way Kubuntu or Edubuntu are distros: it is totally (or will be with Ichthux 6.10) embedded in Ubuntu, and only uses different settings at install to customize the desktop.
Since we have Ubuntu and Debian developers in our midst, we can work directly in Ubuntu and Debian to provide the packages we need (apps, Sword modules, customization metapackages) so we can work from within Ubuntu.
It is still easier to call it a distro for many people because we release an iso image and many people really don’t want to know whether it’s Ubuntu or Kubuntu or whatever since they see it says Ichthux when they boot…
God bless
Comment by Raphink 09.11.06 @ 2:07 am