Packages to add to Edubuntu's 2nd CD

[David Trask]

Adding my opinion....I personally don't think that Moodle should be on
this particular CD....here's why....

It's an awesome product, don't get me wrong, but it can be quite resource
intensive in a decent sized installation.  Most folks will install Moodle
on a LAMP server.  Installing Moodle on an Edubuntu LTSP server could
cause some MAJOR slowdowns.  I discovered the hard way last year that when
giving a test to a number of students the CPU and RAM can spike VERY
high...bringing everything to a crawl or even "timing out".  Different
functions on Moodle consume different resources, but some are hogs.  As a
result if you had Moodle on your Edubuntu server at the same time you are
serving apps....you'd be in a bit of trouble.  A moodle set up
script....maybe, but Moodle probably IMO be left to the repository or the
server CD of Ubuntu.  That's my $.02


mantha at ubuntu.com writes:
>Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Tue, 09 Jan 2007, Jordan Mantha wrote:
>> 
>>> I've started a list of potential candidates [1] that I found trolling
>>> around the web 
>> 
>> You might get some extra inspiration here, if you haven't looked
>already:
>> 
>>
>http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Software?highlight=%28%5EDebianEdu%2F%5B%5E%2F%5D%2A%24%29
>> 
>>> and would really like to get feedback on them and other
>>> packages to include so please take a look and discuss it.
>> 
>> Is moodle already on the main cd?
>> 	http://moodle.org
>
>Moodle is not on the cd yet. We would like to but we need to do some
>overhaul of the packaging and work on security (Moodle doesn't have the
>best security history, which is a problem for getting it into the Main
>repository)
>
>> Not my thing personally, but some might be interested in gnomesword.
>> 	http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/
>> 
>> One minor comment.  I don't have any particular issue with the second cd
>> but I think it important not to overload edubuntu's default install with
>> applications -- in particular the existing philosophy of choosing one
>> application per task is a good one in my opinion.  Having two
>independent
>> programs for a given task can cause confusion among groups of users.
>
>That's what we are attempting to do. We are building in flexibility, to
>allow for Edubuntu to be applicable from preschool kids to university
>classrooms, while retaining they one application per task philosophy.
>I'm trying to pick out the best educational software we have in Universe
>to include on the 2nd CD. We aren't going to just dump all of them on
>every Edubuntu machine but allow for some customization of install. The
>spec I linked to in my original email has more details about that.
>
>Thanks for the suggestions.
>
>-Jordan
>
>
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David N. Trask
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Vassalboro Community School
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