Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure

Alfred Nutile alfred at nationalpriorities.org
Wed Dec 12 09:08:35 GMT 2007


I have not upgraded to Gutsy due to see on the thread problems.
Local device problems was one of them.
Speed on older clients another.

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:33 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> > I use LTSP in a high school, but I got annoyed with Edubuntu and
> > switched to Ubuntu with the LTSP package installed. It seemed to be
> > more stable, at least as of 6.10 and 7.04.
> >
> > Todd
> >
> >   
> 
> 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).
> 
> So, I am a bit surprised to hear all the items on this thread. What
> specific problems are you all seeing?
> 
> Sameer
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
> 
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