Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote: > Here's a little K12LTSP 5.0EL testimonial. > > Wednesday afternoon, I did a LTSP demo for some educators, nearly all > of them from other countries. For the demo, I prepared two > servers--K12LTSP 5.0EL and Edubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I had > originally planned to do the demo with Edubuntu, but unfortunately, > some technical difficulties came up. Something got corrupted somehow, > because the box was not letting people log in. You got the login > screen, but you couldn't actually log in...not from a thin client. > And I didn't have time to troubleshoot it. > It is strange I have this problem on an ubuntu fiesty server with ltsp 5 on it. and on the exact same hardware i have edubuntu 7.04 running fine.
Has anyone else experienced this > Fortunately, I had the K12LTSP 5.0EL box as a backup, which I finished > building a day and a half before the demo. This thing performed > absolutely flawlessly. It was actually quite uneventful, almost > anticlimactic. That's a good thing, BTW. I asked a software > distribution that was still hot off the presses (a day old, *maybe*) > to do a command performance, and it did. Now, the only thing I need > to do is get sound working with KDE on the terminals; it already works > w/ GNOME. > > You know, I'm glad that Edubuntu exists. It shows a lot of promise > and looks very cool, and I *love* the Debian package management > system. But whenever I've needed solidity and reliability, I've > always ended up back at a K12LTSP EL release. Wednesday was one such > case. Thanks to the new 5.0EL, I think I might've gotten a couple of > people to start considering F/OSS in their own schools. > > --TP > _______________________________ > Do you GNU!? > Microsoft Free since 2003 <http://www.gnu.org/>--the ultimate > antivirus protection! > > > Eric Harrison wrote: >> I'm making a lot of head-way on K12LTSP 7.0.0. Today I have a big chunk >> of time set-aside to do testing. With any luck, I'll have a solid build >> uploaded tomorrow. >> >> >> It often takes a while to put together a release announcement... I'd >> rather work on K12LTSP 7.0.0 today than to do an announcement on K12LTSP >> 5.0.0EL. You may notice, however, that the "BETA" label has been removed >> from the K12LTSP 5.0.0EL images ;-) >> >> >> 32bit ISOs: >> >> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/iso/ >> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/iso/ >> rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-EL-32bit-iso/* . >> >> >> 32bit DVD: >> >> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/dvd/ >> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/dvd/ >> rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-EL-32bit-dvd/* . >> >> >> >> 64bit ISOs: >> >> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-64bit/iso/ >> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-64bit/iso/ >> rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-EL-64bit-iso/* . >> >> >> 64bit DVD: >> >> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-64bit/dvd/ >> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-64bit/dvd/ >> rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-EL-64bit-dvd/* . >> >> >> >> -Eric >> >> _______________________________________________ >> K12OSN mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn >> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn > For more info see <http://www.k12os.org> -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
