Re: [opensuse-edu] New CD

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:14 +0200, Lars Rupp wrote:

Hi James, @ll

On Sa 18 Aug 2007 16:00:35 CEST James Tremblay wrote:

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How are you? How is the Baby?

Currently my whole family is moving from Göttingen to Nuernberg (about 400km). All family members are alive and kicking (especially my daugther - just two months old and it seems to me she's becoming her first teeths...). So this is the last time I can send an email from our old apartment.

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I'm wondering about the 905 mb size of the new disk. Is it programs or dependencies pushing us into dvd size? I'm not in the poorest school district that I know of, but even my IBM servers still all use cd's.

This is the result of some sleepless nights (currently 140 source packages in Education:desktop and Education:server).

But I've created an online repository, so you can use the URL below to add the Education-Repository to your installation sources:

http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/Beta1/

Just a short ls -lrSh in the rpms directory shows some packages with over 10MB: 10M pysycache-lang-pt-3.0-9.7.noarch.rpm 10M kde4-marble-3.92.0.svn700953-2.1.i586.rpm 11M grass-6.2.2-17.1.i586.rpm 11M maxima-5.12.0-3.12.i586.rpm 11M XaraLX-devel-0.7r1777-9.1.i586.rpm 12M python-wxGTK26-2.6.3.3-44.1.i586.rpm 12M hydrogen-0.9.3-79.1.i586.rpm 15M pysycache-photographies-3.0-3.6.noarch.rpm 16M celestia-1.4.1-7.5.i586.rpm 17M clisp-2.41-2.9.i586.rpm 18M scilab-4.1.1-59.4.i586.rpm 28M qcad-2.0.5.0-53.13.i586.rpm 29M kdeedu3-3.5.7-33.2.i586.rpm 29M muse-0.8.1-3.1.i586.rpm 31M pysycache-3.0.1-17.2.i586.rpm 31M stellarium-0.9.0-10.13.i586.rpm 44M gcompris-8.3.2-24.6.i586.rpm 170M XaraLX-0.7r1777-9.1.i586.rpm

Perhaps now it's a good time to test _all_ applications and decide if they should stay on the CD or just reside in the repository.

The german Education team has already started to test some applications. I think we can clone their wiki page: http://de.opensuse.org/Bildungswesen_Desktopprogramme into the english wiki.

The page is splitted into two parts: one for young children (up to 12 years) and one for older ones.

For each part, there are some categories like "computing", "languages", "mathematics", "natural sciences", "art".... (try to place a application into one or more of these categories - you can create a new one if none fits your application, but this should not be necessary).

The table titles are:

* Pakagename (with link to a detailed description) - links to en.wikipedia.org pages, if possible

* Description - short description of the application

* Homepage - the original homepage of the project

* Note - links to other websites who have good articles about this application

Greetings, Lars

Good to hear that all is well with you and the little one, this is a great time in your life as you are the most important thing in her life, soon it will be toys, games, tv, music, etc...Give her as much love and attention as you give us and she will always love you twice as much as we do! Thanks for the update and direction. Sorry about my lack of presence here it's just that I have only two months to accomplish all my non-production hour upgrades, i.e. upgrading Groupwise to 7.02 on SLES10sp1, installing new TeraByte storage drive, etc.... -- 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