> > [ To the press team: feel free to reformat the announce, and please send > > it to debian-news or debian-announce ] > ... and please mention anywhere that those links contain only French > content - or at least one visitor is to stupid to find a translation. > > > The Debian Education distribution > > > > Back in 1998, the French Board of Education committed itself to > > promoting the use of Free Software, especially in high schools, where it > About two years ago I talked with Thierry Laronde in Bordeaux about > the Pingus distribution which might be the root of the project announced
The Pingus distribution is server oriented. It was made by the Conseil General 74 (Haute-Savoie). Therefore it is quite different from the Debian Education Distribution which is workstation oriented. > by you. I just repeat what I said these days: In my opinion it i better > to integrate a subproject *into* Debian than basing a distribution > *on* Debian. In my opinion you could learn from Debian-Junior and > do a Debian-Edu project. The advantages of this strategy will be explained > in my talk on LinuxTag in Karlsruhe at Fr 7. June, 10:00. I will make > the slides available soon in the Debian-Med tree - another subproject like > Debian-Junior. I agree with you and this is what we tried to promote since 2 years at OFSET by first building up a list of free education oriented software and then eventually packaging them for Debian. However we have been quite short in volunteers to help in this task. http://www.ofset.org/projects/edusoft/edusoft.html http://www.ofset.org/projects/edusoft/faq.html http://www.ofset.org/freeduc/ Hilaire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
