Edubuntu CDs

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Sunday 14 January 2007 01:20, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> This is a call to everyone in Sydney.
>
> We are desperate for Edubuntu CDs for LCA. There are none left from our
> LoCo allocation, which leaves us in a rather tight spot for specifically
> the Education MiniConf on Monday and Tuesday. We are also short on
> Kubuntu and both types of 64bit CDs. Canonical sent us a whopping 1000
> CDs for the conference, but none of them are Edubuntu, Kubuntu or 64bit
> (yes, quite annoying).

If we're short, I suggest that people focus on the 32-bit variants. While it 
seems 'cool' to have a 64-bit OS, at present it does not work as well for 
things like Flash and Java. An experienced user might be able to cope with 
this, but it would be exceptionally irritating for a newbie.

Xubuntu is also a good one to have, for those who have limited RAM or older 
computers. Not everyone wants to take the plunge and install Ubuntu on their 
main PC, but they might want to experiment and try to resurrect that old 
virus-ridden Win98 machine that's been gathering dust for the past five 
years.


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oh yeah, improving the product." - Brian Livingston, InfoWorld, 2002-12-09
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