Linux Catholic Philosophy OS

[MindOverMatter2]

Anybody Know of a catholic philosophy OS?

If not, why doesn’t somebody make one? Any i ideas of what would go in to a distribution like that? It would be cool to hear your suggestions. You never know, if we could get some good ideas together, perhaps we we could make a distributable re-master of Ubuntu 11.04, using the classic desktop. I want to make an OS thats organized towards Catholic education in philosophy and defenses of the faith, as well as being just a general desktop.

Heres a couple of ideas from me.

1. We could pack the OS with as much free and open source e-books, as well as possibly e-books donated by Catholic authors if they were willing. Including a an extensive up to date Catholic study bible.
2. Pack out fire-fox with all the most important links to philosophical issues regarding the catholic faith. I mean professional blogs and websites dedicated to honest Catholic philosophy (ethics, politics, theology, apologetics etc) so that people don’t have to search for these things themselves. Most importantly but a nice looking link on the desktop to Catholic Answers.com!

3 Customize the desktop. Make it look slick and modern, while giving it a catholic-centric theme through icons and well designed wallpaper. Make an add on for fire fox. Get together a community Catholic programmers who are willing to dedicated any spare time they have to creating interfaces or programs that will give ease of use and access to catholic learning as well as encourage it.

1. Also, this will be a modern Catholic OS. This is to say that it will be a learning experience that is friendly with modern science, but at the same time true to the faith, and can be aimed at a younger generation.

We want an OS that encourages honest learning. Not conspiracy theories.

I would be grateful to hear any ideas. Even if your not Christian, try to think what you would like to find in this hypothetical OS if you wanted to learn about the faith and its philosophical roots.

Thanks.

 

[ricmat]

Anybody Know of a catholic philosophy OS?

If not, why doesn’t somebody make one? Any i ideas of what would go in to a distribution like that? It would be cool to hear your suggestions. You never know, if we could get some good ideas together, perhaps we we could make a distributable re-master of Ubuntu 11.04, using the classic desktop. I want to make an OS thats organized towards Catholic education in philosophy and defenses of the faith, as well as being just a general desktop.

Heres a couple of ideas from me.

1. We could pack the OS with as much free and open source e-books, as well as possibly e-books donated by Catholic authors if they were willing. Including a an extensive up to date Catholic study bible.
2. Pack out fire-fox with all the most important links to philosophical issues regarding the catholic faith. I mean professional blogs and websites dedicated to honest Catholic philosophy (ethics, politics, theology, apologetics etc) so that people don’t have to search for these things themselves. Most importantly but a nice looking link on the desktop to Catholic Answers.com!

3 Customize the desktop. Make it look slick and modern, while giving it a catholic-centric theme through icons and well designed wallpaper. Make an add on for fire fox. Get together a community Catholic programmers who are willing to dedicated any spare time they have to creating interfaces or programs that will give ease of use and access to catholic learning as well as encourage it.

1. Also, this will be a modern Catholic OS. This is to say that it will be a learning experience that is friendly with modern science, but at the same time true to the faith, and can be aimed at a younger generation.

We want an OS that encourages honest learning. Not conspiracy theories.

I would be grateful to hear any ideas. Even if your not Christian, try to think what you would like to find in this hypothetical OS if you wanted to learn about the faith and its philosophical roots.

Thanks.

I think someone beat you to it…or at least the general idea.

ubuntuce.com/

I’d use Ubuntu 10.04 instead. The newer version is radically different (Gnome3) and uses a bunch more memory. I’ve got about 40 Ubuntu computers going at the local Catholic school, and 10.04 works well on the 8 year old machines upgraded to 1GB memory.

Here’s an idea I’d like to see (on a desktop as well as iPod, etc.) – I’d like to have a bible application that is VOICE CONTROLLED. For example, you are sitting there reading a good theology book that refers to Isaiah 45:13 or something. You could just SPEAK “Isaiah chapter 45 verse 13” and the program would automatically go there. No page turning, button pushing, etc.

 

[MindOverMatter2]

I think someone beat you to it…or at least the general idea.

ubuntuce.com/

Thanks for the link.

I’d use Ubuntu 10.04 instead. The newer version is radically different (Gnome3) and uses a bunch more memory. I’ve got about 40 Ubuntu computers going at the local Catholic school, and 10.04 works well on the 8 year old machines upgraded to 1GB memory.

Yes 10.04 would be better then.

Here’s an idea I’d like to see (on a desktop as well as iPod, etc.) – I’d like to have a bible application that is VOICE CONTROLLED. For example, you are sitting there reading a good theology book that refers to Isaiah 45:13 or something. You could just SPEAK “Isaiah chapter 45 verse 13” and the program would automatically go there. No page turning, button pushing, etc.

Nice idea.

 

[Teresita99]

Catholic Linux: if you delete the Linux partition, it returns three days later. No daemons are allowed, and you can’t create a child folder unless you have two committed parent folders.

 

[mcteague]

I really do not understand this post. How can an OS be Catholic or non Catholic?
If you would like to create a set of applications centered around Catholic themes, or perhaps improve some of the existing bible study programs, please do so.
If you would like to create a Linux distribution that comes with these things ok.
But it is not going to be a Catholic philosophy OS. Sounds nice but doesn’t really exist

I think I’ll go bake some free love heathen anarchist apple pie! It will probably still taste a lot like any of the sisters in your local parish might bake

 

[MindOverMatter2]

I really do not understand this post. How can an OS be Catholic or non Catholic?
If you would like to create a set of applications centered around Catholic themes, or perhaps improve some of the existing bible study programs, please do so.
If you would like to create a Linux distribution that comes with these things ok.
But it is not going to be a Catholic philosophy OS. Sounds nice but doesn’t really exist

I think I’ll go bake some free love heathen anarchist apple pie! It will probably still taste a lot like any of the sisters in your local parish might bake

You assume to much. You have really missed the point. I never said that i wanted to create an OS that has a metaphysical nature which is Catholic. Of course, no OS can be essentially catholic, atheist, or otherwise. It is just a desktop operating system. But you can give an OS an identity that suites you; that makes you more comfortable in your identity and even encourages you more to express that identity in a suitable and professional manner. Hence all the distributions already out there in the Linux world. If there can be a Buddhist OS, then there can certainly be a Catholic OS! We can create an OS that is tailored toward or made to serve a specific agenda. Call it a “medium”, if you will, for Catholic philosophy and learning to take place. This can be achieved, by links, books, interfaces for learning, programs; all professional free stuff available in one place, everything that can possibly fit on a 4.7 gig Dvd, and then provide download links for more material. All this so that you don’t have to look for it yourself. There has been so many web sites that i needed to know about but didn’t until recently. Imagine an OS, that gives you everything you need to become a professional Catholic philosopher, without the need to go and look for the software and the books or the links yourself. There is so much garbage on the net, but this OS would only give you links to professional web services. It would only provide you with the best programs and books. I don’t want you to have to look for it yourself; i want it to be readily available to you in one ISO. Also, like i said, you can give an OS a catholic identity through themes and really good artwork for wallpaper. Create better programs. Make it look professional, modern, and Aesthetically beautiful. There is no reason why we cannot turn a Linux distribution in to an attractive professional learning hub for serious Catholics and anyone else who is interested.

Those who are interested in making this distribution a reality, can start by looking for open-source professional e-books and programs, wallpapers. If you are writer, perhaps you can donate some e-books or materials to the project. If you know graphic design, get involved. If you good at programming get involved. If you know of links to professional websites, please get involved and share your knowledge. We could create something quite special. The question isn’t why, the question is why not.

Peace and god bless

 

[Alex246]

Catholic Linux: if you delete the Linux partition, it returns three days later. No daemons are allowed, and you can’t create a child folder unless you have two committed parent folders.

You could also go for 10.10 (what I’m using right now), but honestly, I’m not sure how much difference there is except that 10.10 will stay supported slightly longer.

Really, I’m not sue why you’d want to go for the full-blown live cd though. You could just put together a cd with the programs, ebooks, etc. and get rid of the hassle of rebooting. I’d be willing to help though.

 

[warpspeedpetey]

Anybody Know of a catholic philosophy OS?

If not, why doesn’t somebody make one? Any i ideas of what would go in to a distribution like that? It would be cool to hear your suggestions. You never know, if we could get some good ideas together, perhaps we we could make a distributable re-master of Ubuntu 11.04, using the classic desktop. I want to make an OS thats organized towards Catholic education in philosophy and defenses of the faith, as well as being just a general desktop.

Heres a couple of ideas from me.

1. We could pack the OS with as much free and open source e-books, as well as possibly e-books donated by Catholic authors if they were willing. Including a an extensive up to date Catholic study bible.
2. Pack out fire-fox with all the most important links to philosophical issues regarding the catholic faith. I mean professional blogs and websites dedicated to honest Catholic philosophy (ethics, politics, theology, apologetics etc) so that people don’t have to search for these things themselves. Most importantly but a nice looking link on the desktop to Catholic Answers.com!

3 Customize the desktop. Make it look slick and modern, while giving it a catholic-centric theme through icons and well designed wallpaper. Make an add on for fire fox. Get together a community Catholic programmers who are willing to dedicated any spare time they have to creating interfaces or programs that will give ease of use and access to catholic learning as well as encourage it.

1. Also, this will be a modern Catholic OS. This is to say that it will be a learning experience that is friendly with modern science, but at the same time true to the faith, and can be aimed at a younger generation.

We want an OS that encourages honest learning. Not conspiracy theories.

I would be grateful to hear any ideas. Even if your not Christian, try to think what you would like to find in this hypothetical OS if you wanted to learn about the faith and its philosophical roots.

Thanks.

That’s a great idea. Exposing people to logic and critical thinking helps us tremendously. I think there are already Christian distros. You can either modify one of those or you can grab a stable kernel and a package manager that you like and build one from scratch. I would help, but I had to put a fresh copy of windows on my linbox and I need to leave it that way while I do some training with it. In a month or two I might could help. How about an open source reference guide to common atheist arguments and their refutations from a Thomistic view? Make Thomas available to people who wouldn’t normally have access to his ideas?

 

[ricmat]

You could also go for 10.10 (what I’m using right now), but honestly, I’m not sure how much difference there is except that 10.10 will stay supported slightly longer.

Really, I’m not sue why you’d want to go for the full-blown live cd though. You could just put together a cd with the programs, ebooks, etc. and get rid of the hassle of rebooting. I’d be willing to help though.

10.04 is the long term support version. It is supported until 2013. The 10.10 version I believe is only supported through early 2012. I’ve actually had 10.04 running (slowly) on computers with 256MB memory, running well on 512MB, and running really well on 1GB.

I guess I’m always looking for solutions that work on old equipment…but if that’s not an issue, then some of the reasons for 10.04 go away.

 

[MindOverMatter2]

10.04 is the long term support version. It is supported until 2013. The 10.10 version I believe is only supported through early 2012. I’ve actually had 10.04 running (slowly) on computers with 256MB memory, running well on 512MB, and running really well on 1GB.

I guess I’m always looking for solutions that work on old equipment…but if that’s not an issue, then some of the reasons for 10.04 go away.

I think 10.04 is a reasonable standard, especially given the fact that it will be supported until 2013. Ram is reasonably cheap today. I got my pentium 4 computer for £75. Even after that, I reckon 10.04 will still be a good standard. We want something that runs well on both old and new computers. I realise now that the new desktops from ubuntu are aimed at newer computers with more powerful processors.

Thanks for the suggestion. Peace.

 

[ricmat]

In terms of applications, when I was using Windows, I found a program called e-sword, a Bible study program. It worked very well. It came with the Douay-Rheims version of the bible.

In addition, I found some third party add-ons including the Jerusalem Bible, New American Bible, KJV, even a Jehovah’s Witness bible. Also a Catholic concordance, Catena commentary, and Haydock commentary. All this stuff was integrated into the basic e-sword program. The commentary was extremely useful, and the different bibles could be shown in parallel - also very useful.

I have yet to find a linux version of e-sword that has more than just a DR bible.

One possible option (which I haven’t tried) might be to use VirtualBox to run the Windows version of e-sword, with all the above add-ons. I have Virtualbox running inside Ubuntu 10.04, but I’ve not tried e-sword inside Virtualbox. In theory, “wine” should also work to run windows programs but I’ve never been able to get anything to work correctly on wine.

 

[Alex246]

Ah, OK. Thanks for teaching me a bit more about the Ubuntu release cycle