July 2007 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-edu] Lab/class management system
by Fajar Priyanto 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

Hi all, Has anyone tried http://italc.sf.net/wiki/ ? Looks very interesting. I'm planning to use it in my Linux class. Have just compiled it on my notebook last night, and will try to install in on all the client later today after class. Regards, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 7:55am up 1:55, 2.6.18.2-34-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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[opensuse-edu] Contribution to the Education Project
by Sebastian Dziallas 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi there, my name is Sebastian Dziallas, I am a german student and I would like to contribute to the openSUSE Education Project. To introduce myself a little bit more, I am part of a group of students, who are administrating at our school the computer system together with two teachers. At the moment we have a mixed environment, with mainly Windows Computers. But since I (and also one of the teachers) am using openSUSE at home, we would also like to extend the number of computers running Linux. Since we have now holidays it is a bit difficult to test a lot of packages in our system, but in the future, we could test the different packages. So I could for example propose to translate now some wiki pages: I am a native german speaker, but I also speak English and partly French. Maybe, you could let me know how I can help you. Best Regards, Sebastian Dziallas ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-edu] Opensuse Eductation repository : Source for required packages?
by Bryan Scott 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Many thanks. On 7/24/07, Lars Rupp <lrupp(a)suse.de> wrote: > On Di 24 Jul 2007 07:22:44 CEST Bryan Scott <bryan.scott(a)ffa.int> wrote: > > I am trying to use yast to install Koha and it is stating that > > perl-GB-Barcode is required, ie I am just trying to utilise the edu > > package repository. > > Ah - thanks! Now I understand ;-) > I will add the missing package as soon as possible. But it will take > some hours until the new package is available on all mirrors... > > Regards, > Lars > > -- Bryan Scott Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency Honiara, Solomon Islands http://www.ffa.int -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] willing to beta test
by Jason Grizzle 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

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. Please let me know how I can help you in your endeavors. Jason Jason Grizzle Instructional Technology West Jackson Middle School 400 Gumsprings Church Rd. Jefferson, GA 30549 (mobile) 706-410-5950 (fax) 706-824-1969 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-edu] Contribution to the Education Project
by James Tremblay 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Sebastion, As you can see we have a great deal of software that exist in the education desktop repository. What we need most is for people to install these and document the installation process as is done here : http://en.opensuse.org/Installing_MOODLE and combine the information with a style like this http://en.opensuse.org/Scribus using an icon or image and a description with a link to the home page and please feel free to sign your page. James >>> "Sebastian Dziallas" <sebastian.dziallas(a)yahoo.de> 7/30/2007 9:36:30 AM >>> Hi there, my name is Sebastian Dziallas, I am a german student and I would like to contribute to the openSUSE Education Project. To introduce myself a little bit more, I am part of a group of students, who are administrating at our school the computer system together with two teachers. At the moment we have a mixed environment, with mainly Windows Computers. But since I (and also one of the teachers) am using openSUSE at home, we would also like to extend the number of computers running Linux. Since we have now holidays it is a bit difficult to test a lot of packages in our system, but in the future, we could test the different packages. So I could for example propose to translate now some wiki pages: I am a native german speaker, but I also speak English and partly French. Maybe, you could let me know how I can help you. Best Regards, Sebastian Dziallas ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] what does LTSP\thin client technology mean to you?
by James Tremblay 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

I have an important question. If I told you that LTSP5 was not going to be adopted in either openSUSE or SLE's thin client server (which only supports those 500$ type thin clients with flash drives, like those from Wyse and HP), would this influence your decisions about using Novell products? Would you be less inclined to buy an SLE based agreement if your thin client interests were only being met by Ubuntu? Would you simply say well I need a Linux server and I already have the Ubuntu server disk and I know how to use it so....? I'm being told that Novell can't find a fiduciary reason to support LTSP and I keep saying that giving us this feature means that, we can and probably will use an SLE server to host the applications we want to go with it, we can and probably will use e-Directory to manage our user ID's, but if we have to support multiple technologies (Ubuntu and SLE) we will probably shift to the one that cost us less at the desktop (both monetarily and intellectually) simply because supporting the desktop translates into learning to support the server very easily. Reminiscent of the shift to MS servers from Novell servers, in my opinion Novell lost the school server battle simply because schools don't have the time \money to learn\support two OSes. For how many of us is the History teacher who is good with windows XP, the guy who helps us maintain the 2003 server in that building? Is there really no money in supporting LTSP and Education specific products? If your answer is, "I don't really care about LTSP and it won't effect my decisions about my Novell purchases" then ignore me, but if the answer is "I rely on LTSP to help me put more desktops in the classroom and I really would prefer to have it managed with my other Novell products", then I must inform you that the likelihood of you being able to use LTSP5 with Novell products is slim, there are two of us working on integrating the bits and both of us are non-coders, we are merely translating some batch scripts that we can understand and borrowing the best parts of KIWI( a new Novell imaging technology) to make most of it work, which leaves: local device support, network sound, a descent disk-less boot process and much more undone and likely never to be done. Please respond to this list thread and any Novell employee you know, if you want this to change. -- 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(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] Opensuse Eductation repository : Source for required packages?
by Bryan Scott 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hi I am trying to install KOHA using yast on opensuse10.2 machine and the I was wondering if anyone knows where I might find a repository for perl-Marc-charset which is stated as a required module? many thanks -- Bryan Scott Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency Honiara, Solomon Islands http://www.ffa.int -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] Mirroring Education Repository
by Jared Jennings 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

I am trying to mirror the Education Repository with a ZLM system. If you do not know what ZLM is, that's fine, but I need to know the Platforms and Catalogs that the repository provides. Anyone know these two value -- -Jared -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-edu] what does LTSP\thin client technology mean to you?
by Ralph H. Stoos Jr. 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Phil Thane wrote: > On Thursday 19 July 2007 14:16:58 Andy Trevor wrote: > >> The core of LTSP technology is sound and a no brainer. The killer here >> in the UK is the lack of "quality" educational apps. >> > > I'm pushing Linux and FLOSSIE in Wales (with zero success so far). As an > ex-Design & Tech teacher a real sticking point is CAD. There's plenty of high > end pro CAD out there at a high end price, but I think the UK is pretty > unique in doing D&T the way we do so demand for a child proof CAD package is > limited. > > Two bits of good news; > > 1. TechSoft's 2D Design works OK under WINE. I used to be support manager at > TechSoft and tested it years ago. Two minor snags, toolboxes take on GIMP > like qualities and don't stay with the main window when you minimise. Filled > arrow heads on dimensions produce a screen draw error, but filled arrows look > ugly anyway so choose open and it works OK. > > 2. VariCAD is a simple 2D/3D CAD package that works well on basic PCs under > most forms of Linux. Imports and exports all the usual CAD formats. Only snag > is it's not free. The student version is £50, I'd like to see some schools or > education authorities get together and persuade VariCAD to do school site > licences a lot cheaper. > > My personal preference would be to get the Welsh Assembly to sponsor an Open > Source educational CAD package, taking some of the good stuff that's already > out there and developing a kid proof version. > > At the moment it's more likely they'll do a deal with PTC to buy ProEngineer > for Windows. That really p****s me off because, freedom issues aside for a > moment, it's way too complex for most kids (and teachers) and just helps > entrench Windows as the de facto OS for schools for another (school) > generation just as PTC's ProDesktop did in the late 90s. > Phil, I am not a recent CAD user. My last dalliance with CAD was AutoCad 10 (some 18 years ago) and before that it was a Gerber system. Recently, I downloaded QCaD to my Ubuntu system here at work that doubles as a web server for the LUGX (Linux User Group of Xerox). There is a learning curve for sure but, it seems pretty full featured and fairly intuitive. There is a Community Edition that can be had for free at http://www.ribbonsoft.com There is help and a electronic manual included. It will only import DXF files with the community edition but, presumably kids would be starting from scratch. They also have the 'Part Library' which is a collection of about 4500 mechanical, electrical and processing symbols and parts in DXF format. I have also used xFig but found that the User Interface could stand a makeover. It has a few features but they are harder to find, especially for beginners. Good Luck not matter what you use. Regards, Ralph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-edu] CAD (was what does LTSP\thin client technology mean to you?)
by Phil Driscoll 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

On Thursday 19 Jul 2007, Ian Lynch wrote: > > What's PDT? > > Parametric design tool developed for the Acorn Archimedes back in the > late 80s. I think considerably more powerful than Oak Draw but Phil > Driscoll is better placed than me to say what it can do. I think it was > written in C so might not be too difficult to port. The original PDT back in the 80s was indeed written in C, and as far as we know, was the world's first interactive parametric CAD package. It's successor, Apollonius PDT had similar functionality, but with a very slick user interface. We'd love to port that to Linux, as I'm sure that a good 2D CAD system would fill a very useful niche, but since the original was written in for Risc OS in ARM assembler and BBC BASIC, it would amount to a complete rewrite. In any case, a modern graphical application needs to be aware of more recent developments such as SVG, so a rewrite would be a good idea anyway. It's on our agenda, but so far, has never quite got to the top of the list :( Cheers -- Phil Driscoll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help(a)opensuse.org

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