[Buddha-l] A Christian Linux

[jkirk]

Sorry folks, but out- of- the- loop me asks, why is religion used as
part of the name of some Linux system?
Does it have to do with different fonts?
Joanna
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> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 09:00, Wong Weng Fai wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Christian Edition
>> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2076013,00.asp
>>
>> Time to argue for a Microsoft Windows Vista Christo Edition?
>
> No, but it may be time to make a plea for a Buddhist edition of Ubuntu. 
> Maybe
> not. I run Ubuntu (actually Kubuntu, which, as you know, is Ubuntu with 
> the K
> desktop environment) and it seems pretty Buddhist to me already. Indeed, I
> have long felt that anyone who does not run Linux really can't be 
> considered
> a Buddhist at all.
>
> Say, wasn't Xubuntu already the Christian version of Ubuntu?
>
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> Richard P. Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
> http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
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