On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 09:53 -0600, Bill Hartnett wrote:
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> On the distro question, my impression from Theresa was that from
> experience Debian ran more stably on student hardware than Ubuntu. But
> if we wanted to look at alternatives, Xubuntu might be worth a look.
> It uses a more lightweight desktop, and the Gnome and KDE desktops are
> probably the heaviest parts of Ubuntu.
By using Debian's "stable" release, we can be fairly sure that it will
"just work", and run well on older hardware. However, it means we don't
get updates to things like KDE as quickly as "testing" or "unstable" (or
Ubuntu).
It's been a long time (early 2006, as I recall?) since we did any
testing of other OSes and platforms on older hardware -- last time, some
of the SLU students did the testing, and Ubuntu did not perform well at
all.
After we get the classroom machines replaced and tested, maybe it is
time to do some research into which solutions are best for the
childrens' classes and graduate machines.
t.
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