ICHTHUX

ICHTHUX is a Live CD based on the Kubuntu Linux distribution. It is an operating system aimed at Christian users.



The name Ichthux comes from the Greek word ichthus, which means fish. The ichthus fish, drawn with two crossed arcs, is a long-used symbol among Christians, as the word Ichthus (É×ÈÕÓ, Greek for fish) is an acronym, which is a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name. It compiles to the following: "Jesus Christ God's Son is Saviour"

I is the first letter of the word Jesus in Greek: Éçóïõò CH are the first letters of the word Christ (×ñéóôïò) TH are the first letters of the word THeou (Èåïõ), Greek for God Y Y is the first letter for Uios (Õéïò), Greek for son S is the first letter for Soter (Ó￭ôçñ), Greek for saviour.

The X in the end of the name Ichthux is a common termination in the *nix world, of which Linux has become an important part.



In the early times of Christianity, Christians who were persecuted by Rome met in the catacombs. When two met, one would draw an arc in the sand with his sandal, and the other would have to complete the picture with another arc, thus drawing an ichthus on the floor. This was then the sign that they were both Christians.



Features of ICHTHUX:

￭ Based on Kubuntu 6.06.1 LTS "Dapper Drake".
￭ Bible time with multi-language support, using Frank Ruehl's rich Hebrew font.
￭ Kio-sword for Bible study integration into Konqueror.
￭ Several Bibles installed by default for English (KJV), Spanish (SPARV), French (LSG) and Hebrew (WLC).
￭ Christian console tools: verse, bible-kjv.
￭ A Christian emoticons theme by default in Kopete.
￭ kdict with the Easton and Hitchcock Bible dictionaries.
￭ Culmus Hebrew fonts.
￭ Improved default settings for a better Christian experience of the computer desktop.



ICHTHUX can also be installed on your hard drive if you like it, via a Kubuntu Installation Wizard. This version is powered by the 2.6.15-26 Linux kernel and it has version 3.5.2 of the award winning desktop environment, KDE.



You can download ICHTHUX now from Softpedia.