Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure

[R. Scott Belford]

Sameer Verma wrote:
> We (SF State, College of Business) run a lab with 32 clients (2GHz
> Dells) running off a Dell Precision 670 workstation acting as a server.
> It works well for my purposes. We use all 32 twice a week when my class
> meets. We started with Feisty and upgraded to Gutsy with minimal upgrade
> changes (some ethX numbering changed, but other than that it was smooth).

You upgraded.  You did not do a clean install.  A clean install works 
great, as many have pointed out, if you happen to be well-funded enough 
that your thin clients can handle 32 bits of color.  Obviously this is 
the future of thin client computing, but in the mean time there are 
plenty of schools successfully using older clients with the K12LTSP and 
Debian-Edu.  We cannot invite them to try Edubuntu, and them send them 
to hacking an lts.conf file, unless the hardware requirements and 
documentation are more explicit.

> 
> So, I am a bit surprised to hear all the items on this thread. What
> specific problems are you all seeing?

The items long pre-dated this thread, and many keep repeating themselves 
in the form of new posts asking the same questions about the same 
limited functionality from 7.04 to 7.10.

> 
> Sameer
> 

--scott