Hi, I'm a volunteer to install LTSP at my children's school. I'm not a newbie and supposed my skill sufficient to deploy Linux in a small school net.
First, I'd installed Feisty, it happened this spring. Two things were striking upon installation, very slow thin client booting (3-5 min.), and transparent mounting of local devices (CDs, floppies, USB keys) - great! Unfortunately the server wasn't put into operation. I've been back to the server at the moment of Gutsy release. So I decided to upgrade Feisty to Gutsy, first, to speed up client booting, and second, to test upgrade possibility. Upgrade was successful and booting now takes 1 min - great! But this is the end of our success story. 1) Local devices stopped mounting. Rarely a floppy icon appears at some user's desktop. Rarely an USBkey or CD mounts. But this happens without any relationship with username or computer. The fact is that only one user have an access to local devices at a time. Of course, all users are allowed to mount local devices. 2) We need Russian (localization, fonts, layout). After installing appropriate packages user need to change desired language before EACH logon. How to make the language default? For one user and for all users? Can I leave desktop English, and change locale only? When I change language Gnome asks me to rename folders in my home - Media, Music, etc. - into Russian. If I forget to select language I'm asked to rename them back. 'Don't ask me again' checkbox has no role. How to make keyboard layout switch default for all? 3) How to make proxy settings in Firefox default for all? 4) Sound works from time to time. In Flash clips it doesn't work at all. In control panel sound works. And sound icon in righthand upper corner always looks as 'mute'. 5) One user's desktop background have disappeared after ordinary logon. In this user's session gnome-panel started to fail loading modules. When he tried to add Switch-user module to the panel, he got the same failure message. By the way, how to setup default (again 'default') collection of panel modules, i.e. switch-user, keyboard-layout, etc.? 6) Server downloads and installs updates and display an icon asking to reboot after that. But reboot menu at client reboots the client only. To reboot the server I have to 'shutdown -r now' at command prompt. Clients should get a message that allow them to finish their work. But alas, they are forcibly logged off. 7) When one right-click inside entry field at login screen, the screen blanks and login reappears in several seconds (X restarts?). After all the troubles I couldn't prove Linux to be the good choice if needed. Whether IT teacher wasn't interested in it. Unfortunately, I have to establish Edubuntu Gutsy is far far away from system ready for non-IT admins. Denis P.S. Now I'll try to install clean Gutsy. If troubles stay I'll downgrade to Feisty. -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
