[K12OSN] release update...
Nils Breunese
nils at breun.nl
Fri Jun 29 11:19:48 UTC 2007
Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
> Here's a little K12LTSP 5.0EL testimonial.
>
> Wednesday afternoon, I did a LTSP demo for some educators, nearly
> all of them from other countries. For the demo, I prepared two
> servers--K12LTSP 5.0EL and Edubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I had
> originally planned to do the demo with Edubuntu, but unfortunately,
> some technical difficulties came up. Something got corrupted
> somehow, because the box was not letting people log in. You got
> the login screen, but you couldn't actually log in...not from a
> thin client. And I didn't have time to troubleshoot it.
>
> Fortunately, I had the K12LTSP 5.0EL box as a backup, which I
> finished building a day and a half before the demo. This thing
> performed absolutely flawlessly. It was actually quite uneventful,
> almost anticlimactic. That's a good thing, BTW. I asked a
> software distribution that was still hot off the presses (a day
> old, *maybe*) to do a command performance, and it did. Now, the
> only thing I need to do is get sound working with KDE on the
> terminals; it already works w/ GNOME.
>
> You know, I'm glad that Edubuntu exists. It shows a lot of promise
> and looks very cool, and I *love* the Debian package management
> system. But whenever I've needed solidity and reliability, I've
> always ended up back at a K12LTSP EL release. Wednesday was one
> such case. Thanks to the new 5.0EL, I think I might've gotten a
> couple of people to start considering F/OSS in their own schools.
That's good to hear! I'll be doing a K12LTSP 5EL install this
weekend. I hope it'll be just as much of a succes.
Nils Breunese.
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