Version 1.6.2 of BibleTime, the popular KDE Bible software, has been released. The new version fixes numerous important bugs. See the changelog at SourceForge.net, or download it.

It’s a bit late, but the Release Candidate for Ichthux 6.10 ‘Everlasting Joy’ is out. See the full announcement at the Ichthux site.

This release adds a few new programs, namely Nvu, Planner and Scribus as well as some extra wallpapers and new splash themes and some customised default settings.

Ichthux 6.09 “Amazing Grace” features include

• all Kubuntu 6.06.1 “Dapper Drake” features and applications upgraded with latest updates plus,
• BibleTime Bible reader
• Kio-Sword for Bible reader integration in Konqueror
• Losungen (Watchwords) SuperKaramba theme
• several Bibles installed by default for English (KJV), Spanish (SPARV), French (LSG), Hebrew (WLC), Greek (TR), Korean (Korean), Italian (Itadio) , Arabic (Arasvd), Russian (RST), and German (Gerlut1545)
• Sword modules installed by language
• Christian console tools: verse, bible-kjv
• Christian emoticons theme for instant messaging in Kopete
• Kdict (KDE Dictionary) with the Easton and Hitchcock Bible dictionaries
• default artwork and settings designed with Christians in mind

Downloading

You can get Ichthux 6.09 “Amazing Grace” from various servers:

• Denmark (http://ichthux.pj2.org)
• USA (http://matheteuo.org/)
• France (http://ichthux.free.fr)
• France (http://fr.mirror.ichthux.com)
• USA (http://us.mirror.ichthux.com)
• USA (http://www.misterben.org.uk)

High bandwidth paid downloads are also available from MadTux.org.

Installing from Ubuntu

Whether you have Ubuntu or one of its derivatives on your computer, you can easily install Ichthux on your computer, by doing the following:

Add the Ichthux repository to your sources.list:

deb http://archive.ichthux.com/ichthux grace main
deb-src http://archive.ichthux.com/ichthux grace main

Type the following commands in a console to install Ichthux:

wget http://archive.ichthux.com/ichthux.asc # This downloads the key to identify the Ichthux repository
sudo apt-key add ichthux.asc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ichthux-desktop

The Ichthux CD also installs sword modules for your language when they are available. If you wish to have them, you can perform this installation by installing the sword-language-pack-* module corresponding to your language. For example, for French support:

sudo apt-get install sword-language-pack-fr

General Usage Notes:

Ichthux 6.09 “Amazing Grace” iso image is a LiveCD, which means it can be run from the CD without installing anything to your computer’s hard drive. If you want to install Ichthux 6.09, just click on the “Install” icon on the desktop when it is fully loaded.

The willowng content filter had not been included in Ichthux 6.09 because it is not ready yet. We hope to include it in future releases. You can however install it with apt-get, by typing “sudo apt-get install willowng-config-kde” in a console. Willowg needs to be turned on before it can be used. To do this go to the Kmenu and go to Settings -> Content Filter. You will need to add “bad” addresses which are the ones you want to block in the “Domain Filtering” tab. Then set up your browser to use URL “localhost” and port “8563″.

Bug Reporting:

Please use our Launchpad Bug tracker to file bugs on problems that are specific to Ichthux. If the problem seems to be with non-Ichthux specific programs like the kernel or Xorg please use the Kubuntu Launchpad Bug tracker.

You can also contact us by the methods on the Contact page.

The Ichthux team is proud to announce the release of Ichthux 6.09 beta5.

Release Notes

Remember:
This is beta software and even though it should be pretty stable (we are building from Kubuntu’s 6.06 release) be aware that it could have problems. What we would like, at this point, is to have as many people try Beta5 out so that we can fix any remaining bugs before we realease Ichthux 6.09 some time in September.

Ichthux 6.09 beta5 features include

• all Kubuntu 6.06.1 “Dapper Drake” features and applications plus,
• BibleTime Bible reader
• kio-sword for Bible reader integration in Konqueror
• several Bibles installed by default for English (KJV), Spanish (SPARV), French (LSG), Hebrew (WLC), Greek (TR), Korean (Korean), Italian (Itadio) , Arabic (Arasvd), Russian (RST), and German (Gerlut1545)
• Christian console tools: verse, bible-kjv
• Christian emoticons theme for instant messaging in Kopete
• kdict (KDE Dictionary) with the Easton and Hitchcock Bible dictionaries
• content filter (willowng) for blocking undesired websites
• default artwork and settings designed with Christians in mind

Downloading

You can get Ichthux 6.09 beta5 from various servers:

• Denmark (http://ichthux.pj2.org)
• USA (http://matheteuo.org)
• USA (http://www.misterben.org.uk)
• France (http://ichthux.free.fr)
• France (http://fr.mirror.ichthux.com)

Installing from Ubuntu

Whether you have Ubuntu or one of its derivatives on your computer, you can easily install Ichthux on your computer, by doing the following:

Add the Ichthux repository to your sources.list:

deb http://archive.ichthux.com/ichthux grace main
deb-src http://archive.ichthux.com/ichthux grace main

Type the following commands in a console to install Ichthux:

wget http://archive.ichthux.com/ichthux.asc # This downloads the key to identify the Ichthux repository
sudo apt-key add ichthux.asc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ichthux-desktop

The Ichthux CD also installs sword modules for your language when they are available. If you wish to have them, you can perform this installation by installing the sword-language-pack-* module corresponding to your language. For example, for French support:

sudo apt-get install sword-language-pack-fr

General Usage Notes:

Beta5 is a LiveCD, which means it can be run from the CD without installing anything to your computer’s hard drive. When you boot up the CD it will take you to a “Kubuntu” boot screen, don’t worry, we are working on changing that to an Ichthux one. If you want to install Beta5 just click on the “Install” icon on the desktop when it is fully loaded.

The willowng content filter needs to be turned on before it can be used. To do this go to the Kmenu and go to Settings -> Content Filter. You will need to add “bad” addresses which are the ones you want to block in the “Domain Filtering” tab. Then set up your browser to use URL “localhost” and port “8563″.

Bug Reporting:

Please use our Launchpad Bug tracker to file bugs on problems that are specific to Ichthux. If the problem seems to be with non-Ichthux specific programs like the kernel or Xorg please use the Kubuntu Launchpad Bug tracker.

You can also contact us by the methods on the Contact page.

Anyone who’s a Christian and a Linux user can contribute, just ask!