[olug] Terminal clients for a Ministry

[Joe Gulizia]

There is a Ubuntu Christian Edition that you could burn for him...includes some bible study software.  There are also online groups like linux4Christians.  There was a book a few years back by Don Parris called Penguin in the Pew ( download version is $6 from lulu.com ) about why churches should convert to free open source software.

You could demonstrate by running two systems in similar conditions --
one windows with no anti-virus and one ubuntu christian or other linux distro for a week and let him see the results of which is compromised quicker.

It is a difficult task to do....I've tried a little with no luck even though I'm the tech person at the church I attend...I need the minister and Board of Trustees to approve it.  Hopefully I can get the minister on-board soon.

Free as in Salvation! and you can legally share it.


< Political comments follow >

Does the minister or your IT friend condone stealing?  Using any pirated software or software without valid licensure/documentation could get them in trouble from a legal point of view.  Edubuntu has many child-centric learning applications built in.

MS is used by most of the world.... the bible talks about how we are supposed to be apart from the world and worldly things.

Using Windows is like not repenting.....Viruses and mal-ware are a lot like sin.  

An unclean computer (insecure Windows) is like an unclean soul.

The devil (MS) wants to control all the world.

We are supposed to try and be more like Jesus who was free of sin.  We are human and can only attempt that.  Linux is as close as an operating system can get to being similar.

</ Political comments off >

I'm hopeful this helped.

--- On Fri, 1/22/10, Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>
Subject: [olug] Terminal clients
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 3:42 PM

I have a friend that is IT for a ministry. We are in the process of taking
the old machines that have Windows and turn them into terminal clients and I
suggested that we use ubuntu for the client but he wants to use Windows. I
have tried talking him into using Linux server and you don't need all the
security software. I need input or advice.

Kelly Williams
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