Surfing Internet brings sometimes interesting results.
Keywords “kosher linux” in google search brought me page from U8UNTU eLXER about Jubuntu = Ubuntu for “Jewish People”

Information from Launchpad and Jewbuntu.org both seems to be a joke.

Jewbuntu.com offers iso with a version of distro 7.10.
I installed it through VirtualBox. Actually, it turned out to be just Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop iso. So, it nothing more than a fake.

I think that would be nice to have a precompiled Linux distro with a set of programs and browser bookmarks for needs of Jewish people with certain religious needs. Hope, soon there appear some light and fast true kosher Linux OS.

Popularity: 24% [?]

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Surfing Internet I found an interesting project Zmanim for Unix systems.
This tool is not that easy to use, but still reports correct information about zmanim according to Vilna Gaon rules.
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Popularity: 11% [?]

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Kosherdev.com advised me a program for Desktop to see zmanim time and calendar.
The program is called simply luach and can be obtained from here.

Using Ubuntu at home, I downloaded firstly deb package. On my Ubuntu 9.10 it got installed without any problems.
After installation, there appears a nice icon in menu:

clicking the program’s menu shows actually the program:

What I have to say about this program. There a some really good points and some which I don’t like.
I will start with critics:
1. Window can be resized only to minimum width 1050px. With my laptop maximum width 1024px – it cuts the edges.
2. Only Hebrew. There is no other localizations for this program. Hope it is only temporary problem, which will be solved in future.

Now, good points:
1. The best thing is such program exists.
2. Simplicity of usage. As for me One-Button-interface is the best thing you can design for User Interface. So, the developers of Luach did their best to make UI simple and light.
3. Wow-effect is not fully obtained, but still program is pretty and smart. All these clicking on dates – look nice.

Linux program version is lower that Win32 one. So, in other review I am going to install Win32 version.

Popularity: 15% [?]

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