Thanks Gavin, LVM--not heard of this so I just read up a bit about it. Looks doable and elegant but.. I'm not ready for 'one more thing' at this moment :) I've used clonezilla quite a bit and I've used that to approximate a roll-back system. Having some system with which to safely experiment has proven important for me--several times I saved a lot of time returning to a perfectly working image and doing something correctly the second time (or avoiding it) than trying to troubleshoot/patch up something and then wondering if I had a flawed system. David <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Gavin McCullagh <<a href="mailto:gmccullagh@gmail.com">gmccullagh@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi, <div class="im"> On Mon, 30 May 2011, David Groos wrote: > School year here in Minnesota is winding down, I'll take a bit of break, > then will be back to preparing the technology for the next school year. > I've had great success with 10.04 with localapps. Next year I want to move > to Fat Clients. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this. My BIG QUESTION is, > which Edubuntu should I use: 10.04, 10.10 or 11.4? </div>I can't speak about the LTSP aspect, but I've noticed some bugginess in Natty. Gnome losing all settings (due to gconfd problem I suspect), I'm not at all a fan of the ubiquiti desktop either -- though you can choose classic view. I'd be a little cautious, that's all. If the LTS release has everything you want, it's like to be a slightly cleaner experience for now. 12.04 is probably the next LTS release. One thing that might be nice that I never thought of before would be to run your LTS environment in LVM (the logical volume manager). Assuming you had a modest amount of disk space free, you should be able to snapshot the volumes, then run the upgrade, test it for a while and roll back if you're not happy. You should be able to do this several times over the summer and roll back each time. You might want to snapshot the home dirs too, as programs may upgrade settings of users and then if you roll back, it may not know what to do with them. If you're doing that, you need to warn users that they may get their home dir rolled back. Gavin -- edubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>