I'm using fat clients with 10.04 and it's fairly painless, even with a lab that's split between fat and thin. I'm going to try upgrading to 11.04 after school gets out (on Thursday, yikes!), but I've been very pleased with how easy it is to add new packages, upgrade, etc. (I do wish there were fewer steps, but I suppose I could write a script to help with that.)
I can't remember what I did to get LDAP to work on the fat clients--I think it was enough to get LDAP working on the server, because the fat clients log in through the server, then become independent machines, but I can't remember at this point. I'm going to be in and out of my lab working on a project all summer, so I'd be happy to help out. I actually use a vanilla Ubuntu distro with LTSP, rather than Edubuntu, but it feels as if Edubuntu has become more a theme and set of packages than a separate distro. Let me know what I can do to help! Todd On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:21 PM, David Groos <djgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 edubuntu.org ;) Actually, > what I'll do is take notes from this discussion and put it on a public > googledoc since, with its wysiwyg editing it's easy to make and share. > > David > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
