My cool introduction

[Jordan Erickson]

Jonathan Carter wrote:
> Hi Jordan, welcome to Edubuntu!

Thanks! *warm fuzzy*

>>I'm Jordan Erickson - I own a small network consulting and support
>>company in Northern California. I've started following Edubuntu heavily
>>in the recent months, and have just 2 weeks ago started my first
>>Edubuntu thin client network with a customer of mine. Things are going
>>well, they're on Dapper Flight-6 (I know I know...but it just looks so
>>much better!) We're ironing out bugs as we go (most of which I'm
>>associating with the server being a dual PIII 550 with only 512MB ram).
>>It serves 6 laptops as thin clients, with another 6-7 workstations in
>>the works.
> 
> 
> Nice! If you can't upgrade the RAM, I would suggest trying XFCE for
> those machines, it's much less memory intensive.

We'll be upgrading to 2GB as soon as it arrives. Hopefully that will
make everything FLY. =)

>>I did have a question which I saw a little bit of before - The "Users
>>and Groups" GUI seems to act up sometimes, acting very sluggish and
>>sometimes not starting up at all (with a 'working' mouse cursor
>>remaining in Gnome), even under little/no other network/server load.
> 
> 
> We've had that problem in tuXlabs before too. It happens often when you
> add a lot of users, and then click on Ok. It's best to add 5 users at a
> time max, and then click on Ok. YMMV

Sounds like a plan.

>>Any insight would be greately appreciated - the kids love Edubuntu! I'm
>>going to be submitting some things that might be of use to the Edubuntu
>>community, such as actual child surveys on the system (what they
>>like/don't like), and possibly some lesson plans involving Edubuntu that
>>the staff are creating as I type.
> 
> 
> Wow, I'm sure lots of educators would appreciate it if you could feed
> that back!

I will make every effort to do so (my customers are great and are
excited to give the resulting info to me to pass onto the community).
I'm very excited to work with everyone related to Edubuntu and give
whatever resources I can give.

- Jordan