Edubuntu?

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:10:26 +0800
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:

[snipped what has gone before]
I first said:
> >
> > My understanding is that there is no separate CD.  You install
> > Ubuntu, then install Edubuntu-desktop or Edubuntu-desktop-KDE.

Christopher replied:
> >   
> You understood wrong or know nothing much about Edubuntu. A simple
> visit to www.edubuntu.org would have given you a link to 
> http://www.edubuntu.org/Download which should have sufficed to inform 
> you of the existence of the Edubuntu Addon CD.

From the download link referenced:
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"Start by downloading and installing Ubuntu 9.04, then you may install
the Edubuntu educational layer one of the following ways:"
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(that's the part where I meant that you needed to install Ubuntu)

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    * Download the Ubuntu 9.04 Educational Addon .iso file and burn it
to a CD. After inserting the CD-ROM, a menu will popup and you'll be
able to see and install the various educational packages.
    * For users with a fast Internet connection it is possible to
instead just go to "Add/Remove..." in the Applications menu and select
educational software from the Education and Games categories.
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(That's the part where I think that you don't get to order a CD, merely
download one.  Yes, you can certainly burn a CD for use on different
machines.  I don't think you can order one, though, which was my point.)

> >
> Maybe I should have said do a 'apt-cache search edubuntu' instead. 
> Perhaps you would have been more willing to try that than run a gui
> app. Or are you trying to pick a fight? /me tosses Cybe a flame
> thrower and dons on suit of asbestos armour.
> 
Not at all, I think I just made a mistake in understanding what was in
question.  Yes, Edubuntu is just a group of software packages added to
regular Ubuntu.  Yes, there is a CD to add to regular Ubuntu to achieve
Edubuntu.  There's also a download to do the same thing.  No, there
isn't an orderable CD ala Ubuntu orderable disks so that one can install
Edubuntu straight away.

Personally, I think that is a mistake and should be rectified but
that's just my own opinion.  

Cybe R. Wizard
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