[K12OSN] Morley's Great K12LTSP labs - update

[Nils Breunese]

Tom Wolfe wrote:

> Been there and done that. Yes, flash-with-sound worked, PAE worked,  
> but there were other issues with Edubuntu that drove me nuts. Thanks  
> for the tip though.

There's also a 32-bit version of K12LTSP 5EL.

Nils Breunese.

> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, "Terrell Prudé Jr." wrote:
>
>> Tom Wolfe wrote:
>>> OK that settles the question of whether to go 5.0 EL or not -- if I
>>> have to struggle another nanosecond with getting flash to work with
>>> 64-bit I don't want anything to do with it. I'd rather run the  
>>> risk of
>>> being hacked and cracked, and that's the truth. Although I side with
>>> the philosophical arguments, my teachers demand flash with sound as
>>> their #1 priority, way above Office compatibility for example.
>>>
>>> WRT disadvantages of Edubuntu -- the disadvantages for me anyhow  
>>> were
>>> numerous. Getting flash to work with 64-bit operating system  
>>> proved a
>>> futile exercise, and I ran into all kinds of little glitches along  
>>> the
>>> way. I won't go into details. That said it's got great curb appeal,
>>> and I hope that their spring 2008 version has more promise because  
>>> it
>>> could be worth another look.
>>
>> How about just running 32-bit?  You can run the HUGEMEM kernel with  
>> PAE
>> extensions if you need more than 4GB DRAM (assumes Intel CPU's for  
>> PAE,
>> of course).