[K12OSN] Ubuntu thoughts...

[richard ingalls]

I suspected as much from other nations.  But kudos to
South Africa for being the nation that brought forth
Ubuntu!  Thanks to the Shuttlesworth Foundation and
everyone involved in this great project.  Perhaps
Ubuntu developers will put all those "extra" packages
into .ISO files for downloading and burning onto CDs
or DVDs...  For the reasons you mentioned I suppose I
will still want to keep my Fedora Core based K12LTSP
discs.

--- Edward Holcroft <edward at netday.org.za> wrote:

> 
> On 23 Aug 2005, at 5:08 PM, richard ingalls wrote:
> 
> > I think I'm going to go for it with Ubuntu.  I
> LOVE
> > the idea of only needing ONE CD to install from! 
> Most
> > people in the US (especially schools) already have
> a
> > DSL or faster connection.  (Schools in the US can
> get
> > very fast internet connections for a very
> reasonable
> > price due to government money earmarked for this
> > purpose).  So, downloading the additional packages
> > from Ubuntu and other public mirrors strategically
> > located across the globe should be no problem.  As
> for
> > other nations... I can't say; I don't know.
> >
> In South Africa the idea of just one CD makes it
> somewhat less useful  
> than it could be for schools here (A little ironic
> considering Ubuntu  
> has been created by a South African). I like that
> K2LTSP ships with  
> everything and the kitchen sink (although of course
> you use just disc  
> 1 if you want to). The sites where I deploy labs in
> rural South  
> Africa have no Internet at all, not to mention
> broadband which only  
> exists in selected urban areas, so the approach of
> downloading the  
> extra stuff doesn't work. The multi-disc approach of
> K12LTSP  
> addresses this and all I need to do is mail the
> latest set of discs  
> to sites that I have set up so that they can
> upgrade.
> 
> ed
> 
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