Announcing Edubuntu 12.10

[Matt Johnson]

>________________________________
> From: Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
>To: Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: Edubuntu Users <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>; Edubuntu Developers <edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Monday, 22 October 2012, 12:23
>Subject: Re: Announcing Edubuntu 12.10
> 
>On 10/22/2012 09:48 AM, Matt Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
>>> To: Edubuntu Users <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>; Edubuntu Developers <edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>>> Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2012, 18:15
>>> Subject: Announcing Edubuntu 12.10
>>>
>>>
>>> For larger deployments and environments where a stable, well tested
>>> system is preferred, the Edubuntu development team strongly recommends
>>> staying on the Long Term Support releases (current release is 12.04.1).
>>>
>>> LTSP users should also remain on Edubuntu 12.04 LTS as 12.10 is lacking
>>> Unity support for LTSP and has been reported to be much slower than 12.04.
>> 
>> What is 'reported to be slower' on 12.10 LTSP than 12.04 LTSP... Is it specifically Unity under LTSP or the whole LTSP experience regardless of desktop environment?
>> 
>> --
>> Matt
>
>Mostly Unity, though 12.10 also saw the inclusion of quite a few desktop
>software depending on clutter which in turn requires 3D acceleration to
>work.
>For those, the thin client will use llvmpipe to do 3D acceleration in
>software, leading to pretty high CPU usage on the server side which can
>easily slow down all your clients.
>
>
>So unless you really need a lot of new software that can only be found
>in 12.10, I'd strongly recommend using 12.04.1.


Thanks - that is appreciated advice. 12.04.1 it is, then.

And thanks all for an excellent solution for schools.

Kind regards,

--
Matt