I have regular battles with parents, where I have to justify our use of free software. I work at quite an expensive school where many of our parents work with MS products every day, and believe their kids should too. Firefox, however, is one app I usually don't have to defend. I am afraid that will change if kids start going home saying they use iceweasel now. I can just see parents cursing the crack-pot teacher who stops their kids using 'real' software and who is now saying that even firefox isn't free enough. Is it too late to rename iceweasel to something sensible?
I say leave it off the CD and I will install firefox from mozilla. As for the Gimp, I regularly have 15 or more students using it on my Athlon 64 single CPU server. I just make them set the tile cache really low (48 or even 32). I use the Gimp with grades 5 and above. I've had many kids say their parents installed it for them at home. However, its just an apt-get away, so it doesn't matter as much as firefox. nigel > Halvor Dahl wrote: >> Luk Claes wrote: >>> You do understand that if you consider using the Firefox name in >>> Debian-Edu >>> that you have to ask Mozilla if all changes are OK and that this >>> means if you >>> do it properly quite some changes to the Debian version? It's not >>> like Mozilla >>> took care that you only have to change the name in one location, but >>> all over >>> the place... >>> >>> >> >> Does anyone have any idea how much work is really involved in this >> process? It >> would be worth an effort to be able to keep the Firefox name. I would >> guess the >> Mozilla guys are reasonable people. >> > Keeping the firefox name is a lot of work. > - someone must create this package, and maintain it. not to mention > security patches, and firefox have it's share of those. And when all > security patches must be preaproved by mozilla corp before we can use > them. This will be a more work then it's worth. > - we must have it in our own repository, creating work for ftpmasters > and drift > > Personaly i feel that if someone have the needed time to do this. they > could do a _LOT_ of good things with > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Etch > > Besides why jump thru loopholes when we dont have to ? iceweasel is bug > for bug compatible with firefox. > > Ronny > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
