Student Lab Project: Some Dapper Questions

[Jim Mendenhall]

Hi Everyone,
I'm currently working at a small university in Russia, and we're hoping 
to move our student lab to Edubuntu this summer (June - July).

Before we can get approval for the project, we need to submit a proposal 
to our bosses.  I've also set up a demo server and a few workstations. I 
have a few questions (as do my bosses) that we need to have answered 
before we can commit to transitioning to Edubuntu.

1.  Is it possible (or will it be possible with the final Dapper 
release) to mount local floppy drives on the thin clients?  What about 
USB flash drives?  The students will need a way to save documents, this 
is a must-have feature for us.

2.  What is the easiest way to configure a default gnome configuration? 
 I need to make a default configuration for students that includes the 
Russian and English keyboard, the panel widget that switches languages, 
 etc.

3.  I'm having a problem (now that I've updated the system with the 300+ 
MB of updates ... so I assume that I'm at Flight 6 now) with not being 
able to log in with the main administrator account on a remote thin 
client.  Is this a new feature, or is something broke?

4.  Is there a source of documentation besides the wiki?  I don't seem 
to be able to find much documentation on Edubuntu at all (especially the 
LTSP part and how it differs from standard LTSP).  What would be the 
best way for us to get involved in helping to document an Edubuntu lab 
install?  We want to be a help to the community if we are able to do the 
project.

5.  Does anyone know of a multi-lingual dictionary that supports Russian?

Thanks in advance for your help.  I hope that we'll soon be able to 
start our lab project and also become productive members of the Edubuntu 
community.

Sincerely,
Jim