Good morning. I'm working with a new school start-up, and have run across edubuntu. I downloaded the Live CD version, and boy am I impressed! :) Also, about 5 months ago, I had run across the LTSP, and really liked that concept. When I found that edubuntu comes with LTSP, that has me really wanting to get this to work. However, I do want to make sure that the proposed structure I come up with will serve the school's needs, and provide for a little room for growth as well. They have 3 Pentium II machines that have been donated, and one of them has had W2K loaded on it. The performance is less than stellar... and that's being very generous.
I also have tried to run Linux before on a 64-bit AMD processor. It worked well, but there were some annoyances that I was willing to live with, but the school probably doesn't want to. I've read about ubuntu's out-of-the-box 32-bit apps working out-of-the-box on the 64-bit architecture. How is this implemented, from the user end? Are there shortcuts for Firefox 64-bit and Firefox 32-bit? Are apps like Firefox only 32-bit, so that they'll support most of the plug-ins? Along those lines - if one were choosing between a Core 2 Duo chip and an AMD 64x2 chip, which would be better suited for the LTSP server? I'm thinking that 1 GB of RAM would be sufficient for the box, and a fast hard drive. Also, is there a good site to document modifying the default user desktop? And finally, is there any way to try out SchoolTool without installing edubuntu on a box, maybe a demo site or something? Sorry for all the questions - like I said, I'm really thinking that this is the way to go, but I want to make sure I have all the concerns addressed so the folks at the school will be as impressed as I am. :) Thanks! Daniel J. Summers -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
