[K12OSN] K12LTSP Live CD?

[Petre Scheie]

You might also checkout The OpenCD, www.opencd.org.  It's a collection of free software, 
for Windows.  It's got all the usual suspects: OOo, Firefox, Gimp, AbiWord, etc.  It 
doesn't appear to have any education titles.  But the project was started to create 
something that could just be handed to Windows users to expose them to the world of free 
software.  I think the apps need to be installed on the computer, however, rather than 
just running from the CD.

Petre

William Fragakis 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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