mandag 11. juli 2005, 21:58, skrev Vidar Bakke: > Skolelinux Ubuntu = Skubuntu
Jonathan Carter is the person that is making the tuXlab CD. He is from South Africa, and is working together with spreading free software at schools in that country. They have around 100+ schools that has adapted their server/thin-client solution. Mr Carter has told me that they think Skolelinux/Debian-edu has done a great job, an he would cooperate with us. One of the reasons is that the CD called tuXlab is a installation-CD with a script that puts all the configuration files on place after the installation. They don't do the installation the native way with Fedora/K12LTSP, with adjusting necessary packages as Skolelinux does with Debian. It's nice that tuXlab changes from Fedora to a Debian based solution. They have an architecture similar to Skolelinux, and has had that a couple of year. The maintainability is not as good at it should be with K12LTSP. That's why they would change to an other framework to make customised distros. As many have pointed out, the fast movement of Fedora Core, which K12LTSP is based on, quickly became unmanageable. That's one of the main reasons that Skolelinux has stayed with Debian community. When it comes to package compatibility, there will be some work to do to adapt e.g the new implementation of LTSP from Ubuntu to Skolelinux. We have looked at the new code, and is manageable compared to the "mini-distro solution" that was the situation with the LTSP 4.1. The Debian project has has grown from around 900 developers in 2003 to 1400 developers in 2005. The participants will continue to grow. This is good for free software ... Today It's a shorter way to continue the debian-edu path for the Skolelinux-project. The timetable for edubuntu is that they first will give a class-room only solution, then they will concentrate on the whole school, and then thy would do a regional/municipality solution. It will take at least 18 months before edubuntu has a debian-edu architecture if they follow their timetable. Free software in nature gives that possibilities, and it also allow tailoring, and merging code back and forth between projects. In my view we should work together with the other free software projects tailored for schools. Old stories about HPUX, Sun Solaris and Irix don't applies on free software in the same way, because we cooperate with the other EDU-projects. When doing that, the "vote for MS" as happened in the 1990-ties don't apply in the same way as before. One of the reasons is all the legacy, and the upgrade and man hours to maintain MS software because of all the different versions of Windows, that is at last 10 versions the last 8 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows Knut Yrvin project mangager Skolelinux Norway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
