How close to ultimate goal?

[Gary Cziko]

All:

I read somewhere on an Edubuntu webpage (can't find it now) that the
ultimate goal of Edubuntu is to make it possible for a teacher without
specialized computer technology skills to be able to set up a lab running
Edubuntu and the Linux terminal server in one h our.

Being new to Linux and having played with Edubuntu over the last 10 days or
so, I am impressed with how easy Edubuntu is to use. But while Add
Applications and the Synaptic Package Manager make most programs easy to
install, some installations are much more complicated than what it takes to
install programs on Windows or Macintosh (for example, see instructions for
installing Gnutella at
http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/ch03s06.html#id2529193).

So I am wondering how close Edubuntu is to its goal of making it possible
for a teacher to set up a computer lab with Edubuntu.  Is this something
that will soon be here, perhaps in Dapper, or a bit farther down the line.
Or perhaps this is instead a vision that will keep Edubuntu moving along but
it won't happen  in the foreseeable future.

--Gary
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