Edubuntu Feisty

[Uwe Geercken]

may I add my two cents to the discussion...

I did a presentation at our local school in germany. what they found
specifically interesting was:

- I showed them the multi-language feature in ubuntu
- I took the thin client, unplugged it, went to the other side of the classroom
(had to move some tables and chairs) and plugged it in. after a short time all
was back to normal
- and I showed them (but I just mention it here for completeness) how to use
devolo powerline adapters where there is no cabeling is available.

as usual and I guess you have heart that before, they were interested, but
afraid of incompatibilities with word and excel.

anyway, I hope we will - as they have promised - start an afternoon session with
interested teachers and students.

rgds,

uwe

Zitat von Steve Jackson <sjxn at bigpond.net.au>:

> I have done 3 small Edubuntu setups over the last year, two on Dapper and
> one Edgy, and I agree with all that Gavin says, with the addition of a
> gigabit nic for the server and a switch with at least one gigabit port to
> serve a classroom. The terminals are happy with 100Mbit/sec. For smaller
> setups I use servers with three 100Mbit nics, one for the 'internet' and two
> for the terminals (5 terminals on each server nic), but that needs a bit of
> tweaking to set up. 1Gb RAM seems to cope with 10 users. My servers use
> software RAID1 (mirroring) and standard IDE drives.
> 
> Also, if your terminals are old, they will boot rather slowly on Edubuntu. I
> have 233MHz Pentiums with 48Mb RAM as terminals, and these do better with
> the older LTSP 4.2 setup. I am happy to say you can easily do a
> 'workstation' Edgy Edubuntu install on the server and then install
> LTSP 4.2on that to get better startup times with these old terminals,
> without having
> to forgo local devices, though sound is dodgy. Hopefully you will have more
> up-to-date terminals if your demo is important!
> 
> Steve
>