[K12OSN] Preparing K12Linux F11
Joseph Bishay
joseph.bishay at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 16:36:13 UTC 2009
Hello,
I hope everyone is doing well.
>> Warren Togami wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Fedora 11 is soon to be released. Sometime after that I
>> will spin a new K12Linux Live Server ISO image.
>>
>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/ltsp/k12linux/f11/beta1/
>> Currently the beta is under 1GB in size. Would folks
>> prefer that the image include OpenOffice and educational
>> apps? The image would likely be around 1.5GB in that case.
>>
>> Please reply here with a list of packages already in
>> Fedora that you would like to be included in the image.
>> Around mid-June I will spin up a release candidate for
>> folks here to test.
>>
>> (It seems we shouldn't include Tuxtyping, Tuxmath and
>> Tuxpaint because they are impossible to use over the
>> network right?)
We have a small deployment and this allows us to use such programs. I
would hazard a guess that many of the deployments of LTSP are smaller
ones and thus can run such programs. They're also very crucial for
the younger grades.
>> * I am thinking to make the K12Linux F11 Live Server ISO
>> x86-64 only as this is the majority of deployments. 32bit
>> clients are supported by the 64bit server. 32bit servers
>> are still possible if you install K12Linux on top of the
>> standard Fedora 11.
I know for myself and some others, that our servers are going to stay
32-bit because of the cost of upgrading it to anything more than that.
My question is this -- is the plan to have K12Linux by default a
cutting-edge system? I.E.: You need 64-bit servers, gigabit-network,
excellent, modern thin clients? If that was the case it makes sense
to have it only 64-bit. But I would imagine a lot of people using
LTSP are not at all in that boat and were drawn to it for exactly the
opposite reasons. So what's the vision?
>> OpenOffice.org is an absolute must, because of all the MS
>> Office files that teachers sling around. Remember that one of
>> the big selling points of GNU/Linux distros is that "it
>> already comes with office." This really can't be considered
>> negotiable any more than the kernel can...if it's to be taken
>> seriously in a North American K-12 environment.
>>
>> As for the educational apps, some should be included, e. g.
>> ChildsPlay. After all, there's gotta be something "K12" for
>> "K12Linux" to demo. :-)
What about the option that used to exist with the older K12LTSP --
after the initial installation there was a desktop folder script the
administrator would have that contained a series of scripts to
download educational/extra software. It basically was a front-end for
yum. That's still an incredibly cool demo feature -- double-click
additional software, double-click 'get OpenOffice' or 'Get ChildsPlay'
- wait a moment, and it's ready to go!
Thank you.
Joseph
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