[K12OSN] K12LTSP Live CD?

[Jon Spriggs]

How about finding a document online about building (or rebuilding) a
Knoppix disk. Then, you can dump all the apps you don't have and
include all those you do. Ta-da! One disk containing all the
day-to-day apps you need for the students and missing all the chaff
that you normally get on there!

(and once you've released it, stick it on sourceforge so we can all
get a copy ;) )

On 13/10/05, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 12, 2005, at 7:34 PM, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > The question of a K12LTSP live CD has come up before, but I don't
> > think anyone has
> > pursued it to the point of actually creating such a disk.  While it
> > would be an
> > interesting project, I think the objective is usually to allow anyone
> > to try out
> > K12LTSP.  But to really appreciate its brilliance, it needs to be
> > installed on the hard
> > drive for performance reasons.
>
> Our reasoning is that we want all students and families to run the
> software at home, too. That, I think, is a big selling point for OSS,
> that we can have our children use the same software at home, no matter
> their financial means.
>
> They wouldn't be interested primarily in the thin client aspect but
> using the suite of educational apps. They can see how well it works at
> school.
>
> Most families in our school probably have a pretty peppy PC at home but
> probably won't wipe Win and put Fedora on. A live CD would be great for
> rebooting, doing school work and then returning the PC to it's usual
> spyware infested state. Families that are less fortunate, we would try
> to donate older boxes fully loaded with software. Maybe not as zippy
> but beats the Win98 alternatives.
>
> Regards,
> William
>
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