Thanks Gavin, LVM--not heard of this so I just read up a bit about it. Looks doable and elegant but.. I'm not ready for 'one more thing' at this moment :) I've used clonezilla quite a bit and I've used that to approximate a roll-back system. Having some system with which to safely experiment has proven important for me--several times I saved a lot of time returning to a perfectly working image and doing something correctly the second time (or avoiding it) than trying to troubleshoot/patch up something and then wondering if I had a flawed system. David
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccull...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 30 May 2011, David Groos wrote: > > > School year here in Minnesota is winding down, I'll take a bit of break, > > then will be back to preparing the technology for the next school year. > > I've had great success with 10.04 with localapps. Next year I want to > move > > to Fat Clients. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this. My BIG QUESTION is, > > which Edubuntu should I use: 10.04, 10.10 or 11.4? > > I can't speak about the LTSP aspect, but I've noticed some bugginess in > Natty. Gnome losing all settings (due to gconfd problem I suspect), I'm > not at all a fan of the ubiquiti desktop either -- though you can choose > classic view. > > I'd be a little cautious, that's all. If the LTS release has everything > you want, it's like to be a slightly cleaner experience for now. 12.04 is > probably the next LTS release. > > One thing that might be nice that I never thought of before would be to run > your LTS environment in LVM (the logical volume manager). Assuming you had > a modest amount of disk space free, you should be able to snapshot the > volumes, then run the upgrade, test it for a while and roll back if you're > not happy. You should be able to do this several times over the summer and > roll back each time. You might want to snapshot the home dirs too, as > programs may upgrade settings of users and then if you roll back, it may > not know what to do with them. If you're doing that, you need to warn > users that they may get their home dir rolled back. > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-devel mailing list > edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel >
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