Searching for various windows/linux/mobile programs, I found a really interesting resource http://www.tichnut.de/jewish.

Unfortunately, most of programs are not updated for several years (some for more than 4-5 years). But still, User can find something interesting there.
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Sometimes, I have a serious problem at home because no MS Windows is there.
But fortunately, there is WINE. Which sometimes can solve my problem.
Kaluach.com provides only win32 and mobile versions of their calendar. So, I decided to try double-click on Kaluach_3_2_41_24.exe.

Installation past smoothly. In ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Kaluach3 there is Kaluach3.exe executable. Again double-click on it and voila:

the only problem I got was with the tree in Options and Preferences:

Some words about the system:
OS: Ubuntu 9.10
WINE: 1.1.31

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To write this post I was inspired by this e-mail thread. It is really funny to hear from adepts of free software religious intolerant speeches. And I have got a question: is it kosher enough to write open-source programs?
In addition, I was thinking for a long time about halakhic aspects of Open-source in general. My rabbi told me once an example of halakhic issue:
If a rabbi opens a synagogue on a street and earns money for lending it to study Torah, then no one can open another on that street and especially for free.
In our case free software takes earnings from those, who live for that.
I propose to talk not about opposition Windows vs Linux, but about our, Jewish software.
There are a lot of closed source applications, which are provided for money, or supported by donations. Is there a problem to create open-source alternative software? Don’t we steel money from those, who live on it?

as an example, Kaluach.com distributes synagogue wall display program for a pretty big amount of money. Me personally, I don’t see any problem with earning money for programming (I cannot agree with Stallman to free absolutely all software). But the question is: can I create free-of-charge program, which will concur with Kaluach’s program?

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Previously, I wrote about Luach program (Linux version).
I found a Windows XP machine on work and downloaded Win32 version of Luach

The biggest plus is that this program doesn’t need to be installed. You download self-extractable archive and extract files to any location you like.
Then just execute Luach.exe file and here you are:

Actually, all that I said about Linux version is applicable to win32 one. So, have nothing to add here.

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