Hi Jeremy I've not had the opportunity to thank you for doing this - this is fantastic for demonstrating to schools :) The hard bit (of course) is overcoming the Microsoft 'conditioning' and also the 'it's free therefore it must be pirated' brigade.
Best Wishes John Cockroft On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote: > Edubuntu is once again a stand-alone DVD. > http://www.edubuntu.org/news/9.10-release > > ** Changed in: edubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) > Status: In Progress => Fix Released > > -- > No point in Edubuntu without it being a distribution > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335455 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “edubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: edubuntu-desktop > > This is not strictly a bug at all BUT is SO IMPORTANT that I could not let > this go. > > Making Edubuntu an add-on CD (effectively just a small Debian repository on > a CD) rather than being a bootable distribution in its own right has > destroyed the reason for Edubuntu to exist in the first place. > > Edubuntu (7.10 and earlier) was fantastic for demonstrating how amazing > Linux and open source education applications are to teachers and > schoolchildren (who are normally completely brainwashed by Microsoft into > thinking that PCs cannot be used without Windows/Office). Standard desktop > Ubuntu (good as it is) does not have the appeal to children that the themed > and child-oriented Edubuntu desktop has. > > If we are to push Ubuntu into schools (especially in the UK which is pretty > hostile to Linux at the moment) then we need bootable Live CDs (or Live > DVDs) of Edubuntu for demonstration purposes. I realize that I can build my > own Live CD with UCK *BUT* this is then not an officially supported Ubuntu > distribution. > > Come on guys - the time to act is NOW! Vista is very unpopular and this is > a real window of opportunity to push Edubuntu into schools. Having Edubuntu > as an add-on CD is completely pointless - users might as well install > "edubuntu-desktop" from Synaptic. > -- No point in Edubuntu without it being a distribution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335455 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
