On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:43:15PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > Debian-Edu which, thanks to your explanations, is now the foundation > of the work Edubuntu.
Personally, what I'd love to see would be to get a Debian-Edu person actually *join* us over here. That'd be great. > only *not* to build upon Debian-Edu, at that time called Skolelinux, > but also to replace LTSP 4.2 with LTSP 5 between the Edubuntu 7.04. > and 7.10 releases. It was, as we all know, a huge nightmare. It's > great that things have changed. Like I say, it was a tactical decision, and, I think in hindsight, *probably* the right one, but what it's meant is that Edubuntu became less of a polished finished product, and more of a "research project/trailblazer". It was bad for users short-term, but has advanced LTSP beyond what it could have ever been otherwise. A net win, I think. > single-minded focus on the end-user at times, and I have worried, and > expressed so, that the glorious light always shone by *buntu has > suffered here in the mud of making Edubuntu as automagic and as easy > as its promise. Ah, but a Project's reach should exceed it's grasp, or what's a heaven for? With apologies to Robert Browning :) Seriously though, you're absolutely right. We've spent a lot of time making some things fantastic, and other things, maybe more "endusery things" have fallen down. > Given the new hand-in-hand collaboration with Debian-Edu, Well, no time like the present. I'll sub to the debian-edu mailing list. They got an IRC channel? > Take > this out of the equation, and you've got a bunch of people who like > working on something together and are eager to see it succeed. Amen, brother, amen. Cheers! Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. Systems Department | -- Ashleigh Brilliant Legal Aid Manitoba | -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
