Updating Ubuntu

Thu Feb 22 19:33:32 GMT 2007

Hi All,

Please could anybody help out with this problem? Whenever I update my Ubuntu desktop with a new kernel release, it always increase the number of option to choose from when booting a dual boot system.

Presently I have upto five diferent kernel versions to choose from and one instance of Win XP.

I don't want all other versions of kernel except the latest one and of course my Win XP. I looked out for grub.conf to deactivated all other but couldn't locate this file. Please help out

David 

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   4. public administration software in germany/nrw only for
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:00:26 +0000
From: "David Caldwell" <dcaldwell at accessit.co.uk>
Subject: Re: edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 14
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Thanks, Gavin.

In dhcpd.conf I didn't actually add anything - I altered the IPs to match the server and the subnet I'm on and altered the DHCP address range.

Initially, I tried simply doing an 'apt-get install kubuntu-desktop' on the server, but I couldn't see how I could get a thin client to log into a KDE session so I thought I had to chroot the kubuntu-desktop install it instead. 

So, if I rebuild the ltsp file system and install kubuntu-desktop on the server (it is actually already installed), do you know what steps I need to take to enable clients to log into KDE (I'd like it to be default)?

Thanks,

David.

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:15:51 +0000
From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 14
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Hi,

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, David Caldwell wrote:

> Initially, I tried simply doing an 'apt-get install kubuntu-desktop' on
> the server, but I couldn't see how I could get a thin client to log into
> a KDE session so I thought I had to chroot the kubuntu-desktop install it
> instead. 

ldm doesn't give you the option of launching a kde session.

> So, if I rebuild the ltsp file system and install kubuntu-desktop on the
> server (it is actually already installed), do you know what steps I need
> to take to enable clients to log into KDE (I'd like it to be default)?

Since edubuntu 6.10, ldm gives an available session list.  I guess it
doesn't have kde in there or else maybe kde just isn't the default?  It
appears from the code that ldm uses some sort of socket to get a list of
available sessions from the server but I'm not too clear how that works or
how you'd modify the answer the server gives.

Looking quickly at the ldm code in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/sbin/ldm:

  # select the right session command
  session_manager = get_config('LDM_REMOTECMD') or '/etc/X11/Xsession'

  if selected_session != 'None' and not get_config('LDM_REMOTECMD'):
    session_manager = session_manager+' '+selected_session

suggests the LDM_REMOTECMD variable placed in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf
might allow you to specify a session.  I'm not certain what the kde session
command is off the top of my head but a quick search suggests it may be
"startkde".

If this is true, you may be able to put something like

    LDM_REMOTECMD=/usr/bin/startkde

but I really haven't tested this so I'm not sure.  As an initial test, you
could set:

    LDM_REMOTECMD=/usr/bin/firefox

in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf and reboot the thin client.  If when you
login it goes straight into firefox, this works.  It'd be very useful to
know if this works so please tell us how you get on.

Gavin

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:28:15 +0000
From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 14
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Hi again,

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, David Caldwell wrote:
> 
> > Initially, I tried simply doing an 'apt-get install kubuntu-desktop' on
> > the server, but I couldn't see how I could get a thin client to log into
> > a KDE session so I thought I had to chroot the kubuntu-desktop install it
> > instead. 
> 
> ldm doesn't give you the option of launching a kde session.

This is a badly phrased question, not a statement.  Does ldm not give you
the option?

Gavin

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:05:15 +0100
From: Jochen <jochengeorges at yahoo.de>
Subject: public administration software in germany/nrw only for
    windows
To: edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com, edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <200702212205.16006.jochengeorges at yahoo.de>
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Hello,

sorry for crossposting and german language.

In germany/nrw there is a public school-administration software, which is free 
of costs for schools, but it runs only under windows :-(

Hallo frei bildende/gebildete aus NRW,

heute hatte ich eine Fortbildung zum Thema "Schulverwaltung" mit Schild-NRW.
Schild-NRW ist eine vom Land NRW bezahlte und f?r NRW-Schulen kostenlose 
Schulverwaltungssoftware.
http://www.svws.nrw.de/index.html

Das Programm ist richtig gut und scheint recht ergnomisch zu sein. Im Moment 
ist es das einzige Schulverwaltungsprogramm, mit dem man die Stastistik mit 
dem Landesserver in der ab n?chstem Jahr geltenden Form abwickeln kann.

Nur leider ist es ein Windowsprogramm und benutzt eine Accessdatenbank (man 
kann allerdings wohl MySQL oder Firebird einbinden.
http://www.svws.nrw.de/files/schild2000/neuecd/Schild-NRW/Dokumentation/SchILD-NRW_MySQL41.pdf)

Da ist es wieder, das ?ffentliches Gut (das Programm wurde ja mit Steuern 
bezahlt) closed source ist und zum Kauf von Monopolistenkram zwingt.

Bitte geht auf die Didacta und sprecht mit den Schild-Leuten. Schreibt dem 
Kultusministerium, den Bezirksregierungen, den Parteien im Landtag oder wem 
auch immer!

Beste Gruesse
Jochen

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