Hi David,
> The development of localapps has saved the day for my class/curriculum. > Firefox and CmapTools work quite well as localapps using PIII and PIV > computers with no more than 512 MB RAM. I can't say enough good stuff about > what they let me do. Localapps IS the reason I upgraded to Jaunty. I have installed Karmic and messed about a bit with Firefox as a local app. I am hopeful but a couple of things make me cautious: 1) Ideally I'd like to wait for an LTS that has local apps, but I don't think that's due until next spring 2) I am uncomfortable rolling out a new LTSP out mid-semester (although I may have to) since I may be exchanging one set of problems for another considering Karmic is pretty green. I have enough custom stuff going on on top of the base ltsp/ubuntu install that I building a box isn't trivial. 3) Even with 512m ram my thin clients processors are too wimpy to deal with flash well. So I am currently vetting an upgraded thin client. I am sad to see that LTSP users are back to being engaged in a hardware arms race much like the one I thought i left behind when I went to thin clients. C'est la vie... > > I'll too help you make the move to Jaunty--I can't say number of hours on a > thing like this (alas, one never knows), but it is worth it if you need cpu > hogs as tools for your students. If I can help let me know as well! Thank you very much (and Joseph as well) for your generosity with your time. I may end up bugging you! :-> Thanks, John -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
