edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 6

[Don Venardos]

Bill,
   Stick them in the corner and when I get around to setting my iMacs
up I will post the instructions to the list. It is not that it is
hard, it is just that the documentation is strung out in pieces all
over the internet. The iMac is a good PC, a lot more reliable than a
no-name i386, and almost completely silent, it is a shame to waste
them.

Regards,
Don V.

> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:09:16 -0700
> From: Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org>
> Subject: Re: Can the Server CD be used to setup clients?
> To: Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>
> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20071102170915.GB29278 at hank.org>
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> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:42:40PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Mittwoch, den 31.10.2007, 09:16 -0800 schrieb Don Venardos:
> >
> > > With 96MB of RAM the Desktop PPC CD is not going to work. You are
> > > going to have to use the Xubuntu PowerPC CD to get a working
> > gutsys desktop CD has a bootption to not start X that should work fine
> > with 96M.... just add "textonly" as a kernel boot parameter
>
> Well, on the Edubuntu 7.10 Desktop cd I tried adding "terminal" to the
> boot: prompt and it gave an error message about fb memory.
>
> I think tried in desperation "terminal cli rescue" and got a busybox
> prompt.  So could never boot the live CD.
>
> I'm not sure it's worth setting up these iMacs, frankly.  It's
> probably less work finding used i386 machines at very low (or less)
> cost.
>
>
> --
> Bill Moseley
> moseley at hank.org
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:58:04 +0000
> From: Alistair Crust <alistair at skegnessgrammar.org>
> Subject: Re: LOCAL APPS!!!
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <1194026284.11361.106.camel at trialix>
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> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:05 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Freitag, den 02.11.2007, 08:27 -0500 schrieb Jim Kronebusch:
> > > I've seen this posted to ltsp-discuss and k12osn, but not here yet.
> Yesterday the gurus
> > > finally had a chance to hack on local app support....and they got
> it!
> > >
> > > Here is a blog from Scott:
> > >
> > >
> http://ltspthinclient.blogspot.com/2007/11/local-apps-2-next-morning.html
> > >
> > > Awesome!!
> > yeah, scott is a hero ...
> > and you dont need any weird auth mechanisms on teh client either, it
> > just works !!! there are still a alot of integration things to do
> > (gconf, themeing, printing etc) but seems we'll have it in hardy :)
> >
> > if you ever meet scott at a conference, pay him lots of beer and give
> > him a hug, he really deserves it :)
> >
> > ciao
> >       oli
>
> By the look of the first of Scott's blog posts
> (http://ltspthinclient.blogspot.com/2007/10/local-apps_31.html) I think
> they all had a good time on Cider and Ale already. Say cheese!
>
> Still, I think once its in Hardy ALL you guys, especially Ogra, Jim,
> Scott and Vagrant to name but a few would find that at nearly all our
> teachers would give you all a big hug for making there lives easier. I
> even think you'd get one from our headteacher... and he's Scottish
> (Nothing against the Scots, it just every Scot I've ever met has been
> mostly friendly but not the hugging type.)
>
> Oh and you'd have 800+ kids happy too, as everything would work much
> quicker once we can offload "some" of the burden to the thin clients.
>
> Gutsy rocks... Hardy.. Oh my, I really can't wait! :)
>
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