[schooltool-dev] Configuration issues for schools

[David Van Assche]

You're right it is specifically an ŚDL issue, but I think it needs
pushing from every angle. We have more than 4 million LTSP seats
worldwide, and the tuxsuite is in Main, not universe... its just not
acceptable to let kids use these wonderful tools (in fact the most
requested) running with --disable-sound... I'm just wondering what we
can do as a community to push for this to be worked out... Im willing
to put my time in and in fact I filed the first bur report about this
more than 6 months ago... (launchpad) my question is, what can we do
to get this great set of edu apps working the way they should be,

Kind regatrds,
David Van Assche

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Tim Holy <tim.holy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The biggest problem we currently have is that the tux4 kids suite,
>> being based on SDL, totally freezes LTSP deployments, which are the
>> hear of edubuntu/ubuntu deployments for schools worldwide. For kde, it
>> needs to be much more qt based.... but thats another issue.. the main
>> issue is that the minute we enable sound with any SDL app, the LTSP
>> server comes to a halt crashing every terminal connected.
>
> Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware that the issues had been
> localized to problems with sound---I was assuming it's just due to the
> frequency with which large chunks of the screen are being updated. I've run
> TuxMath over a network, and it's visibly slower.
>
> You know that TuxMath can be configured to not use sound, right? (It sounds
> like you know that.) Does that help? Or not enough? Or is it that you really
> want sound? My fear is this is more of an SDL issue than anything we
> specifically can do, but if you think otherwise I'm interested in looking
> into it.
>
> Thanks,
> --Tim
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