Just a note to let you all know that I have been a bit busy with a complete conversion of my school to Edubuntu. I have so much "faith" I even replaced all the remaining Windows desktops with Edubuntu workstations. So I have now completed 2 Edubuntu Classroom Servers running dhcp/load-balance failover....an Ubuntu Server running Samba/LDAP using smbldap-installer....and about 50 Edubuntu Workstations....(I simply have to finish cloning them using my new Clonezilla/DRBL server running on Edubuntu). So...I've made the total switch from K12LTSP to Edubuntu. Phew! Nothing against K12LTSP at all...I simply believe in where Edubuntu is headed and what you guys are doing. My school administration (principal) is very pleased! He wholeheartedly supporting the move to Edubuntu workstations and moving away from those last Windows machines (they were mostly teacher's machines). I am running Windows in VMWare Player on those machines for transition's sake, but I doubt many folks will use it. My experience is...whatever the machine boots as will be what they use most of the time. I have a whole bunch of little thin-clients and bought a bunch more this summer. If I keep going at this rate we'll have more thin-clients than kids ;-)
So...great work! Special thanks to Oli and Scott for their work.....and many thanks to all who work hard every day making this work for us. Now that I'm totally converted....some feedback.... I've been perusing the K12OS list as well as the edubuntu-users list....one very common gripe is the Thin-Client Manager. The lists, processes, and things like that are working fine, but the screen view, demo and so forth are not. We need to get this working well...especially in situations where folks authenticate centrally rather than on the Edubuntu server....most large installations will most certainly use some other server for authentication. K12LTSP has TeacherTool which works very well....I've used it for years....I even helped convert it for K12LTSP in the very beginning. Nonetheless, it's things like this that the teachers and admins really need which is why it keeps coming up. So...if we can troubleshoot this...that's be great. I know Jim Kronebusch is having issues with it...and am I and a bunch of others who are waiting to see what we come up with. Documentation: The documentation for things like initial set up....fixing LDM....those types of things is sorely lacking. I intend to fix some of that next week as I'll write up what I've done this past week. We need to focus on "newbie-speak" Splash screen: Not only is it pretty....it lends a feeling of user-friendliness when thin-clients are booting, however there are resolution issues and issues with some thin-clients being unable to use it....(I had to turn it off) That's it for the moment....once again....Bravo! I'm looking forward to the ride and the adventure! David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207)923-3100 -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
