[K12OSN] K12LTSP Live CD?

[William Fragakis]

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