hi, Am Montag, den 11.07.2005, 17:57 +0800 schrieb Steve Torrefranca: > Hi, its me again. > > since you made it clear that it will take time for edubuntu to be > released and i will be buying my little angel's laptop next month, will > it be easy to switch Ubuntu to Edubuntu - i mean no installation at all > (maybe just running a patch and changing sources)? Well my understanding > of Edubuntu is that it is basically Ubuntu with kid friendly icons and > applications, correct? if so can we easily switch ubuntu off and > edubuntu on and vice-versa without installing both in amachine? I would > want to know so i would know how to partition the hard drive... or > better yet get debian jr and edubutu sitting together. > > but would it be a better idea if we can easily switch ubuntu/edubuntu > through gdm/kdm especially for family PCs or school PCs so adults and > children can share PCs with having to install both. the edubuntu CD itself will be targeted at classroom use (it will install a ltsp server out of the box etc.) but ubuntu will have a edubuntu-desktop package that will (like ubuntu-desktop) depend on all apps we selected for the educational desktop. so my advise for home use would be, install ubuntu at home and edubuntu-desktop on top. so you will have the full set of edubuntu apps [1].
;)
ciao
oli
[1] http://edubuntu.org/ApplicationSelection
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