replacing Ubuntu with Edubuntu

[R.M Deal]

Hi, Jonathan Carter,

I plan to run a script when getting edubuntu to misbehave on the 
lilypond-data package; then
I'll email it to you.

>Hi Ralph
>
>On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 23:10 +0200, R.M Deal wrote:
>  
>
>>lilypond-data package.  Afterwards I asked to remove all the lilypond 
>>packages which
>>was done except for the lilypond-data package again.  I've tried several 
>>times to remove
>>that package several times since but the problem persists.  This is a 
>>15Meg file I'd really
>>like to clean out.
>>    
>>
>
>Does it give you an error message? Could you please tell us what that
>is?
>
Today, my systems guy, Ervin Peters, showed me his current scheme to 
force users to store their
files on the server rather than the local harddisk:  The home directory 
on the server has separate directories
for each user, each with a protection code of 700.  On booting up, each 
user will land in his/her directory on the server, say /home/deal/.  
While they can see the directories for all other users by going up one 
directory level, they will all be locked
(love the graphics in edubuntu) except for their own and, at one level 
higher, they will have access to a shared folder where
they can leave documents,etc, for colleagues.   It seems to work well 
and preserve the privacy of each user. While this scheme seems close to 
a diskless system, it does not require the server to provide services 
other than access to the user's own directory.
Now we work on the printer sharing problem, keeping it all gui and 
intutive, of course.

If anyone can point me to a discussion of the relative merits of 
skolelinux and edubuntu in a school setting, I'd
appreciate it.

    thanks,   Ralph