[ubuntu-uk] edubuntu

[andylockran]

Alistair,

I was at FLOSSiE at the Bolton TIC in 2006 and was really impressed by your work.  I've not noticed you on the list before - so here's a quick "Well Done" from a fan!

Andy

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:23:34 +0000, Alistair Crust <alistair at skegnessgrammar.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 14:00 +0000, andylockran wrote:
>> Norman,
>>
>> I _really_ like edubuntu so much that it's become my choice for the
> desktop at home.  It was great fun to have friends at uni come with their
> XP laptops complaining about their speed - and set them up to boot off
> their network cards onto my edubuntu server.
>>
>> That's only a small part of it.  (I find the interactive periodic table
> far too exciting) - I wish I'd had something like that when I was at
> school.
>>
>> Enjoy it!
> 
> 803 Pupils here enjoy it (although we don't use a true edubuntu server,
> we use just use ubuntu + ltsp4.2 + extra packages installed by
> edubuntu), and thanks to shipit.edubuntu.org and shipit.ubuntu.com the
> school library is regularly giving away *ubuntu cd for the masses.
> 
> even new laptops get xp/vista replaced by an edubuntu workstation.
> 
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