I could put up a drupal site to more easily (??) handle the data for us to collect as How to's problems etc arise. Maybe the Edu site is fine as well.
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 23:12 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:14:23AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > > We can't say that 7.10 built on the functionality of 7.04 - it actually > > regressed. Now, if you are upgrading from 7.04, I guess that you can > > get away with that claim since new installations don't work for most, > > but upgrades from 7.04 seem to mask the bugs. We *definitely* cannot be > > making the claim that "Thin client deployments offers clients a lower > > TCO (total cost of ownership), simpler installation and easier > > maintenance than typical IT deployments". The K12LTSP can, Debian-edu > > can, but Edubuntu has absolutely no right. We can't even support the > > same older clients used by 7.04 (without hacking an lts.conf file). > > I'm not running Gutsy in production yet (so my comments may be of > little value), but I installed a fresh 7.10 Edubuntu and the clients > worked the first time. I was impressed at how easy it worked > considering how little I knew about LTSP. > > Now, it took me a few days to mess with things to get some old > 1999-2000 iMacs to boot. And I needed a little help from the list for > a few items, but overall it worked amazingly well. > > And I've had kids use the clients and they seem very happy. > > It does seem (from watching the list) like some serious problems show > up under loaded conditions with some applications, but I have not been > in that situation yet. > > My biggest frustration is finding items on the wiki. Seems like > there's a lot of good information available, but I never found an easy > way to scan the wiki pages. I miss good old manuals. With chapters > and sections, logically organized. Printed, too. > > I also wish I could find an up-to-date list of schools using LTSP, > too, and a description of the experience moving to LTSP, how it's > helped or not, and statements of cost savings. I have found trying to > explain LTSP to others that the first question they ask is who else is > using it. > > > -- > Bill Moseley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
