<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> David, I'm the Technology Manager for a Charter School in Delaware. We've been using a Thin Client environment successfully for a number of years now, but I've only been in this position for a little less than a year. My knowledge of Linux and LTSP is growing with each day. Currently we're running 9.10 and plan to upgrade over the summer to 11.04. I hate to bother you, but I was wondering if you had any suggestions for software and Repositories. Or any useful tips you may have learned along the way. I could use all the help I can get and appreciate any advice you're willing to give. If anyone else on the list would be willing to share their experiences as well, I'd be very grateful. Some things of particular interest are: Global Firefox caching to local /tmp instead of user's home directories SmartBoard setup Installed Moonlight, but can't get Microsoft Media Pack codecs to install (repo issue?) Getting CUPS to work with local apps (i.e. printing from local firefox, is it possible?) Unity or Gnome UI in 11.04? Suggestions for VESA mounted thin clients DRBL\Clonezilla server setup on dual NIC Software suggestions I know that's a lot, but I welcome and appreciate any advice! Thanks in advance, Jeff Donaldson David Groos wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:BANLkTinUXh1_kS4F6zkR9EtUqgtaqYHV3g@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Hi Edubuntistas, 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? I've seen some passing comments on irc about this and some mention in this list-serve, but nothing comprehensive. Some specific considerations include: LTSP 5/Fat Client ease of use/setup Compatibility with SmartBoard Effectiveness of Video Codecs LDAP integration User management (like, users and groups) Permissions management (like, Sabayon) Internet Proxy/Site white/black-listing Client management (like sch-scripts or iTALC) Jonathan--wouldn't a comparison table like they do on wikipedia, be useful for something like this? It would look nice on <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://edubuntu.org" target="_blank">edubuntu.org</a> ;) Actually, what I'll do is take notes from this discussion and put it on a <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1o4WPsy3PkbaIraVu7sw3nmtpuGSPhBg9-bfJvY2sCB0">public googledoc</a> since, with its wysiwyg editing it's easy to make and share. David </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Regards, Jeff Donaldson Data Services Manager Newark Charter School (302) 369-2001 ext:425 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jdonaldson@ncs.k12.de.us">jdonaldson@ncs.k12.de.us</a> </pre> </body> </html>