Ubuntu for (primary) school usage

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2021-11-13 at 15:56 +0000, David Fletcher wrote:
> There used to be, once upon a time, a distribution called Edubuntu. Now
> discontinued.
> 
> I never had any cause to use it but I believe it was intended to be
> installed on a powerful server with plenty of memory and work across a
> LAN with diskless workstation PCs with their BIOS set to boot from the
> network. Seemed to me like a great idea, only one computer, securely
> locked away, needing maintenance and nothing for the little darlings to
> foul up on the workstations.
> 
> Thought I'd mention it here in case there's anything similar but
> supported.

The Edubuntu metapackages are still provided for bionic. Doing a release
upgrade from bionic to the next LTS would still update packages
installed by the metapackages, but due to unmaintained metapackages no
new packages would be add automagically. UbuntuEd claims to be kind of
an Edubuntu successor, but reading descriptions I got another
impression.