David Van Assche wrote: > > What I meant is that this crowd normally doesn't get stuff from their > > distribution which isn't pre-installed. So not only would you have to > > put it into main but it would also have to appear in the "applications / > > development" menu by default (supposing Edubuntu uses Gnome - I am not > > familiar with it. Perhaps I should mention here that I design Smalltalk > > computers for children and only deal with Linux as a normal user rather > > than a developer). > > Now there is a misunderstanding of what edubuntu us. It is _not_ a > distribution, it is simply an add-on cd which contains all the > educational applications that are currently supported by Canonical. > This means, that when a user downloads this cd and puts it into the > computer, a. he must have an ubuntu installation already, and b. the > computer then asks him which packages he wants to install from a > simplified menu. All packages always appear in the applications menu.
Thank you very much for this information. I am very familiar with Ubuntu and once helped with a InstallFest where some people wanted Kubuntu instead so I put that on their machine and briefly checked it out. Someone also showed me Xubuntu. I had assumed that Edubuntu was a variation similar to these. > Edubuntu is also the name of the community, which chooses and manages > the educational apps that should go into that cd. This is why edubuntu > and not just debian are important in this discussion. It has been well > documented now that squeak can go into debian, we know that now, but > the question really is about it getting onto the edubuntu add-on cd, > which teachers do use, in large classrooms the world over. Besides all these legal discussions, it might be interesting to take a look at the results that distributions such as Linex (in Extremadura, Spain) have achieved to see what value it might have for your users. -- Jecel _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
