[LUNI] General Opinion question..

[Mark Stuart Burge]

I had recently been asked to put together a method of protecting office 
computers from 'unacceptable material' being downloaded either 
unwittingly or not, within a local church.

My research had led me to DansGuardian.  So I was pleased to see the 
posting about ubuntu CE, being a fan of ubuntu, this is a great step 
forward.

In years gone by, I had promoted linux to various churches in the area, 
quoting the usual 'little risk of spyware etc' but then was dismayed to 
find certain issues arise, like the default choices of screensaver 
(including a now removed photo slideshow that pulled images off the web 
(and yes - at random, so porn ended up in full view)

To have a distro that takes these issues into account is wonderful.

Thanks for posting

Samir Faci wrote:
> Okay, so here goes:
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> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/25/1427222
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> Ubuntu Christian Edition.  It's a remap of Ubuntu, includes all the stuff
> that comes with Ubuntu plus christian/bible software plus DansGuardian and
> other web filtering products that block and sensor pornography and other
> inappopriate material.
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> What does everyone think of that?  I find it slightly.. annoying and
> disturbing to use something so open as Linux and OSS to put out a product
> that's meant to censor.  Doesn't this go against much of the OSS
> philosophy?
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> Is it just me misreading this?  I might be overthinking it, we've had a
> philosophy geek meeting at the lug lately, I might be still in that mode.
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