<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi, Has anyone implemented and able to configure Edubuntu server to serve thin clients with wireless network interface cards? Will using any of the other booting methods apart from pxe booting be able to activate the wireless devices and able to load the necessary images on the thin clients? Please help and let's get this possibilities. Thank you all for the good works! David <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ---- From: "edubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com" <edubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com> To: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:00:02 PM Subject: edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 12, Issue 17 <div>Send edubuntu-users mailing list submissions to     edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit     <a target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to     edubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com You can reach the person managing the list at     edubuntu-users-owner@lists.ubuntu.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of edubuntu-users digest..." Today's Topics:    1. Re: Stand alone system for 5-8 yr olds (Richard Weideman)    2. Re: Stand alone system for 5-8 yr olds (Will van der Leij)    3. Re: Stand alone system for 5-8 yr olds (Daniel J. Summers)    4. The Open Source Educator (Timothy Hart)    5. Re: The Open Source Educator (Tom Hoffman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:09:55 +0200 From: Richard Weideman <richard.weideman@canonical.com> Subject: Re: Stand alone system for 5-8 yr olds To: Rodney Schuler <rschuler@gmail.com> Cc: LIST edubuntu users <edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Message-ID: <1178881795.11489.669.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Hi Rodney, Have you considered installing Edubuntu ? It has some great education applications for your kids age group, including the KDE Education suite, and a bunch of games. You'll still have all of the Ubuntu goodness if you go this route, a lot of our education team and community, including myself, use this for our daily work. Alternatively, you can just install the education packages into Ubuntu using the Add/Remove programs menu item, and selecting the education and games sub-section. Let me know if you want a list of the standard apps we install with Edubuntu. I can get this together early next week. Richard On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:20 -0500, Rodney Schuler wrote: > My wife is director of a day care center.  Over the summer they will > be having some more, older, kids.  She has asked me to set up a stand > alone computer for the occasional entertainment of the 5-8 year old > children. > > I have a 866Mhz P3 with 512MB ram with a 128MB ATI 9550 video card > running ubuntu feisty.  My 8yr old daughter enjoys planet penguin > racer on the machine so the performance should be acceptable for most > games.  I was planning to set it up with an automatic logon and a > bunch of game icons on the desk top. > > Is this a reasonable plan for children in the 5-8 age group?  Do you > have any recommendation for games or edutainment packages that would > be appropriate for 5-8 year olds? > -- Richard Weideman +27 (83) 321-2233 richard.weideman@canonical.com Education Programme Manager Canonical Ltd - Linux for Human Beings <a target="_blank" href="http://www.edubuntu.org">http://www.edubuntu.org</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ubuntu.com">http://www.ubuntu.com</a> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:09:22 +0200 From: Will van der Leij <will@ubuntu.com> Subject: Re: Stand alone system for 5-8 yr olds To: Rodney Schuler <rschuler@gmail.com> Cc: LIST edubuntu users <edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Message-ID: <46445CF2.7070004@ubuntu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> Is this a reasonable plan for children in the 5-8 age group?  Do you >> have any recommendation for games or edutainment packages that would >> be appropriate for 5-8 year olds? >>     Hi Rodney, I can specifically suggest the gcompris suite which is bundled with edubuntu and is in our repositories. It is worth taking a look at. Regards, Will van der Leij ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 06:29:31 -0600 From: "Daniel J. Summers" <daniel@djs-consulting.com> Subject: Re: Stand alone system for 5-8 yr olds To: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: <464461AB.10405@djs-consulting.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Richard Weideman wrote: > Alternatively, you can just install the education packages into Ubuntu > using the Add/Remove programs menu item, and selecting the education and > games sub-section. > > Let me know if you want a list of the standard apps we install with > Edubuntu. I can get this together early next week. >   I'd like to see that list.  :)  I recently installed Ubuntu, and I've added GCompris, TuxPaint, TuxMath, and TuxTyping, but I know that there's more than that. Daniel ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:14:07 -0400 From: "Timothy Hart" <timothy.hart@gmail.com> Subject: The Open Source Educator To: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID:     <464c38cc0705111114p28a01574n93887ea3f893feba@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello all, Let me first introduce myself. I am Tim Hart, a technology coordinator at a school in Maine (US for those who don't know where that is). We use Linux pretty heavily in my school and both the teachers and students have benefited from the goodness that Free and Open Source Software brings. I send this email as an invitation to all that may be interested. About a year ago, a few people on the K12LTSP list started talking about creating a resource for teachers and techies involved with FOSS in education. Some ideas were thrown around but eventually it fell to the wayside. The main idea was to provide a downloadable PDF similar to Tux Magazine. The idea has come up again and we are trying to push it into fruition this time around. Obviously this needs to be a team effort, so your input is both wanted and needed. Some of the leg work and structure has already been done. Going back through the list archives and remembering why it may have failed last time I think there was too much pressure of people creating the articles in Scribus and no one putting it all together. We can fix this however. My idea this time around is to have a communal blog where individuals can author articles and publish them on the web. Once there are enough articles a few people (who want to) can work on putting the downloadable ezine together. The focus doesn't even have to be on a downloadable ezine either. Having a blog with multiple authors from all tech levels and physical regions would be a great resource for everyone involved with FOSS in schools. There was some good discussion last time so I think there is a niche for something like this. So to get this thing started I have done some leg work (which is up for discussion as well). Doing this the easiest way, I created a blog at wordpress.com. <a target="_blank" href="http://theopensourceeducator.wordpress.com/">http://theopensourceeducator.wordpress.com/</a> (soon to be <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theopensourceeducator.org">www.theopensourceeducator.org</a> ). Wordpress is both easy to use and pretty powerful to boot (GRUB of course, ha, bootloader joke). I have also created a google group for discussion about TOSE and issues around FOSS in education. <a target="_blank" href="http://groups.google.com/group/tose/">http://groups.google.com/group/tose/</a>. Again, I used googlegroups because it was easy. I like easy. I think that is a good thing here. We also have the wiki that Dave Trask set up last time around. I would suggest looking at that to see where we got to last time. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vcsvikings.org/tose/doku.php">http://www.vcsvikings.org/tose/doku.php</a> Please come and discuss how we get this project of the ground. If you would post this anywhere appropriate it would be appreciated. All others are welcome. Feedback is very welcome. To get involved just visit <a target="_blank" href="http://theopensourceeducator.wordpress.com/">http://theopensourceeducator.wordpress.com/</a> and see how. If you have any questions email me back. Tim Hart Glenburn School -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The focus doesn't even have to be on a downloadable ezine either. > Having a blog with multiple authors from all tech levels and physical > regions would be a great resource for everyone involved with FOSS in > schools. It occurs to me that we don't have a "Planet" aggregator for blogging on free software in education.  I already write quite a bit on my personal blog -- <a target="_blank" href="http://tuttlesvc.org">http://tuttlesvc.org</a> -- that I'd be happy to see mixed in one way or another. --Tom ------------------------------ -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a> End of edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 12, Issue 17 ********************************************** </div></div> </div></div> <hr size=1> <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49678/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL"> Get your own web address.</a> Have a HUGE year through <a href=" http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49678/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL">Yahoo! Small Business.</a></body></html>