On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 10:47 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
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Jason Grizzle wrote:
Greetings,
My name is Jason Grizzle, and I'm an instructional technology specialist with Jackson County Schools in Georgia (USA). I'm excited about the educational focus for open suse. As a system, we're looking to migrate to SLED in (probably) 2-3 years for our Windows machines. My job function is tech. integration and teacher training, and I'm very interested in beta testing or developing documentation for you. I'm not a programmer, but I can develop web training, documents, and video tutorials.
I'm a Debian Developer, so am somewhat biased, but given that you're 2 or 3 years away from a decision you should at least look at the progress of DebianEdu and Edubuntu (the first being the Debian Educational effort, and the second being the Ubuntu one).
http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianEdu
One point that has been raised on this list recently is that Ubuntu has integrated LTSP[1] (the Linux Terminal Server Project) and become the upstream developer of LTSP, whereas there is some question of support for LTSP in SUSE.
Having said that, I would be seriously surprised if there was any real difficulty in making LTSP work on future SUSE distros -- it's just that it will require some more effort than just installing SUSE.
On the other hand, the way that Ubuntu is now developing LTSP is drawing some criticism, as they've been adding functionality that is considered surplus to requirements by some, at the expense of making boot times slower, and hardware requirements somewhat higher.
Cheers, Phil.
Phil, by all means feel free to help make the worlds best distro contain the worlds best version of LTSP , join us on IRC at #opensuse-kiwi. Edubuntu has nothing to offer Education customers beyond LTSP . I don't see any reason for someone to consider it as a viable "vertical" solution to the education market. p.s. Trolling is "off topic" -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org