[K12OSN] release update...

[Dean Mumby]

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.
>
It is strange I have this problem on an ubuntu fiesty server with ltsp 5 
on it. and on the exact same hardware i have edubuntu  7.04  running fine.

Has anyone else experienced this

> 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.
>
> --TP
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>
> Eric Harrison wrote:
>> I'm making a lot of head-way on K12LTSP 7.0.0. Today I have a big chunk
>> of time set-aside to do testing. With any luck, I'll have a solid build
>> uploaded tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> It often takes a while to put together a release announcement... I'd
>> rather work on K12LTSP 7.0.0 today than to do an announcement on K12LTSP
>> 5.0.0EL. You may notice, however, that the "BETA" label has been removed
>> from the K12LTSP 5.0.0EL images ;-)
>>
>>
>> 32bit ISOs:
>>
>> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/iso/
>> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/iso/
>> rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-EL-32bit-iso/* .
>>
>>
>> 32bit DVD:
>>
>> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/dvd/
>> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/dvd/
>> rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-EL-32bit-dvd/* .
>>
>>
>>
>> 64bit ISOs:
>>
>> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-64bit/iso/
>> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-64bit/iso/
>> rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-EL-64bit-iso/* .
>>
>>
>> 64bit DVD:
>>
>> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-64bit/dvd/
>> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-64bit/dvd/
>> rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-EL-64bit-dvd/* .
>>
>>
>>
>> -Eric
>>
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