Sabayon and Unity Interface

[David Groos]

Hey Steve--glad to hear of your success with the pure thin clients and that
it's working for your teachers.  A month ago Jonathan posted this blog post:
http://jonathancarter.org/2011/05/10/whats-happening-in-edubuntu-for-oneiric/and
towards the bottom of that post is the following quote:
Big Hairy Audacious Goals
If our goal is to bring the best of educational free software available
together in one easy to install system then I think this release will get us
there, but where to next? We want to grow the Edubuntu community but we
can’t do that unless we add some new and exciting things to our to do list.
One thing that has come up over and over again and that I bought up in the
UDS session but we got no answer for is in which direction we should start
going next.

I would call this a 'request-for-visions' and thank Jonathan for asking for
it (thanks Jonathan ;))  As a 'big hairy audacious goals', something
exciting and motivating, even inspirational for us Edubuntistas would be to
focus on the System.

The biggest difference between a beautifully working car and one stuck on
the side of the road isn't mainly the parts--most of the parts are similar
or even identical between the working and non-working.  The big difference
is ONE of those parts in the 'dead' car is not working.  I'm proposing that
we focus on creating a great system--where every (essential) part is
working.  That means figuring out the key parts, making sure that each one
of those parts works.  That is the most bottom line--each part has to work.
In a system it doesn't matter if you have the best and greatest part--say an
engine--if any one of the other parts--say the brakes--are flaky.  This
would produce a death machine--not a nice car.

So, Steve, I'm agreeing with you that we need Sabayon working (it is a
critical part).  And I'm raising you 1: let's figure out the essential parts
of Edubuntu and make them ALL work--let's focus on the system.  What do you
(all) think?

David



On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Rippl, Steve <rippls at woodlandschools.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There's a thread running at the moment about current versions of
> Ubuntu/Edubuntu and their respective support for things, but I'm
> specifically interested in (concerned about) the new Unity UI and the
> profile lockdown tool Sabayon in future LTS versions.
>
> We've been running pure thin clients (no local apps) in our school district
> for a few years now and things are working really very well.  A key part to
> it is the fact that Sabayon has worked properly recently.  We're currently
> on 10.04 and haven't tested anything later than that yet, but a brief Google
> does show up bugs filed against Sabayon to say it isn't working with Unity.
>  Now I know that currently you can revert back to the regular Gnome 2, but
> what's the direction for 12.04 and 14.04, I don't imagine Gnome 2 will
> continue to be around for ever?!  Is there a commitment in the Edubuntu team
> to keep Sabayon working as well as it does now (in 10.04)?  We really rely
> on it!
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
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