Hello, Edubuntu lovers,
After getting a lesson in packaging this weekend from our retired sage
LaserJock, we has a short discussion about something that he set up for the
Edubuntu developers and users which, I think if used effectively, will have a
benificial impact on us all.
If you're not aware
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:05:38PM -0600, Richard JOHNSON wrote:
> Hey everyone!
>
> First off, congratulations to the new Edubuntu Council. I look forward to
> working with each and everyone of you in making Edubuntu the greatest
> educational distribution available.
With an email title like "Ed
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:26:06PM -0600, Richard JOHNSON wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:17:02PM -0600, Scott Balneaves wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:05:38PM -0600, Richard JOHNSON wrote:
> > > Hey everyone!
> > >
> > > First off, congratulations
Hello all,
On Tuesday, January 12th, I'll be working all day on trying to fix people's
bugs with edubuntu.
If people could look at:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs/+packagebugs
And think about which bugs they'd like to see fixed for Lucid, that'd be great.
I'll coordinate in irc
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:17:45PM +0100, uwe wrote:
> Scott,
>
> tks for the mail.
>
> I do a lot of LTSP installations and find the following bug very
> annoying and would be happy to see it fixed:
>
> 220947 Installer progress bar is not very indicative of progress
That one's unlikely to get
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:48:16PM -0800, Steve Rippl wrote:
> john wrote:
> > One that isn't listed there that I would like to see fixed is getting
> > removable drives (e.g. thumb drives and floppies mostly) on thin
> > clients to be able to mount 700
> > by default. Our users autheticate via AD
I've updated gartoon-redux for lucid in my ppa:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=74841
I think it looks quite a bit nicer than the older gartoon, and it's updated
recently. I'm not sure how we change our theme to use it, but perhaps someone
could have a look at it, and see if we'd
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 03:40:14PM +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Yesterday was our first bug day in... I guess ever.
Nope! We had one before!
http://ltspthinclient.blogspot.com/2007/09/fix-it-friday-edubuntu-ltsp5.html
> The following bugs got some hugs:
We go
Hello Ryan!
I'm a developer with Edubuntu (http://edubuntu.org, and my page,
http://launchpad.net/~sbalneav) which is a Free Software distribution
specifically targeted at Education and Library usages.
I've been a DB subscriber for years and years, and the topic for artwork for
our new version of
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:05:47PM -0600, David Groos wrote:
> I'm not sure who I'm quoting from the Edubuntu list, but in some heated
> discussion, someone said, "Edubuntu is not software, it's a Community!".
Sounds like one of my or LaserJock's mantras :)
>1. The first issue is that teache
Per the discussion today on #edubuntu, here's the beginnings of a spec for a
new edubuntu-developed user admin tool.
Comments are welcome. Fleshing out the spec even more welcome. :)
Once we have a good design, I'll commit to building it.
Cheers,
Scott
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:20:10PM -0500, Tom Hoffman wrote:
> Here?
Duh.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/NewUserAdminTool
How can you tell I'm getting tired?
Scott
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Scott L. Balneaves | I have nothing definite to apologize for,
Systems Department | I'm just sorry about everything in gener
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:07:14AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> I would like to propose Xiphos for inclusion into Gtk seed and
> BibleTime into KDE seed.
...
> I do understand the religion is a touchy subject and might not be
> appropriate for global audience of Edubuntu but I hope that thes
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 03:25:13AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> Thank you all for your input!!! =)
>
> Your statement does make sense. I just wanted to try in case it was a
> good idea. I see how it is not.
>
> There is "UbuntuCE - Christian Edition" which is PPA maintain by my
> team + extra
Well, I came across this today, and my mind is officially blown:
git clone git://git.gnome.org/archive/evolution-gconf-ldap-backend
What this allows you to do is:
Store some info info in ldap,
preseed your evolution setup gconf defaults by specifying another gconf
backend, that pulls the info ou
Hello all,
After a discussion between myself, Ahmuck, and Lns yesterday, wherein
Lns revealed the mysteries of the ".hidden" file to me for hiding things
from Nautilus, I banged together "hide-tool" last night, a brief shell
script that does the following:
1) Create '.hidden' files
for /, /usr, /
After a few weeks of testing, I'd like to make a, err... Possibly controversial
suggestion. :)
Certainly not for Lucid, but say, for 12.04, it might be interesting to switch
to Epiphany for Edubuntu's "Default" web browser. Here's why:
1) It's based on WebKit, which, with my initial testing, wor
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:50:57AM -0800, Jordan Erickson wrote:
> Just a few things from my experience,
>
> 1) Epiphany is a good browser over-all.. it's fast, I've been using it
> as my main browser on my eeepc 701 and it's good for the most part.
Yeah, as part of my "experiment" I've switched
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:28:24PM -0800, john wrote:
> This sounds pretty cool. I'll just throw in my .02 and say that it
> would be great to devise a way to test under load. A lot
> of the gotcha's that I have encountered with firefox don't even start
> to manifest until I have many concurrent s
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:57:19AM -0600, Scott Balneaves wrote:
> I'm going to create an edubuntu spec for this, so we can keep track of the
> state of this.
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/edubuntu-addon-cd/+spec/edubuntu-epiphany-default-browser
Have at 'er.
Cheers,
Sc
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 02:18:28PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote:
> I simply need the ldap client to authenticate my existing CentOS based
> Openldap server. However, when I try to use
>
> sudo apt-get install libnss-ldapd libpam-ldapd
>
> I get
>
> Couldn't find package libpam-ldapd
>
> This is
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 02:52:01PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote:
> libpam-ldapd was uninstalled in the process. I answered the questions (ldap
> server, distinguished name, version, etc) and ... it still doesn't allow me
> to su to a known user. I'm probably missing something simple at this point
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:38:03PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote:
> SO, I'll try following or something the above again even though it also has
> a warning that the instructions are out of date for 9.10. But with a
> blizzard heading here today, I'll have to do so later. If anyone has a
> simple set
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:16:49PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote:
> And ... at the risk of raising ire, while setting up the server can be
> difficult, setting up an ldap client should not be so hard. IHMO RedHat has
> it done correctly with a simple GUI, enter the ldap server IP address, click
> OK
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:51:33PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Scott Balneaves
> wrote:
> > I can spend a few minutes this weekend, and get a simplified procedure
> > written
> > down. The problem, as with anything to do with
Hello all,
The last bug day I hosted spent a majority of the time on LTSP and
infrastructure type bugs. This bug day, I'd like to focus more on bugs in the
Education apps.
Have a look at:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs/+packagebugs
and see if there's any Education app related b
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:20:19PM -0500, Vikram Dhillon wrote:
> GIMP needs more love :)
GIMP needs lots of love. Not sure how much I can give it, but I'll add it to
the list. Maybe there's some bugs that already have patches I can apply.
Scott
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:29:41PM +0100, Dominic Webb wrote:
> If someone puts a proposal together that will result in us being able to
> remove our dependency on the Adobe Flash player then I'll put
> (financial) resources to it.
Well, the gnash project's already there, if your requirement is,
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:40:05PM +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
> Le vendredi 20 octobre 2006 à 22:44 +0200, Jonathan Carter a écrit :
> > 14. So that was the boring part, now to LTSP... I simply set my IP
> > address to be in the 192.168.0.0 network and dhcpd started fine. I
> > see /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:58:01PM +0100, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> About the "classical" thick terminal, I know they are the converse:
> "powerwul" (how powerful ?), diskless terminals, with applications
> running locally on the clients. How can I configure such terminals on
> the system ?
We hav
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 06:58:03AM -0400, frank claessen wrote:
> Edubuntu asks for one user only and that is an administrative user. For
> security reasons I don;t think this is a good idea.
Why not? How is this inherently less secure than a root account?
By creating an initial priveleged user
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:12:16PM -0800, Richard Weideman wrote:
> > > I just today learned about Edubuntu and would like to give it a shot in
> > > some of our classrooms. We have many, many older machines which
> > > currently run Windows 98 and probably wouldn't stand much of a chance
> > > r
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:37:32AM +, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has any work been done or is there any documentation on how best to deploy
> multiple thin client servers.
Work's been progressing on the Edubuntu handbook. I'm not sure what the
status is with regards to getting it pos
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:53:26PM +0900, nigel barker wrote:
> Much of this is already handled really well in skolelinux you know. My
> kids log on to terminals of any server in school and get their home
> directory.
Yes, and they do it with LDAP, and NFS home directories.
> Why don't you work o
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:09:15AM +, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> In order to use diskless clients you traditionally share out the home dirs
> (as well as system stuff) using nfs.
Well, for most THIN clients, no. Only the system dir. The client runs
X, and all the processes run up on the serv
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:44:15AM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Any thoughts?
Hi Gavin,
Didn't even get a chance to say, "fare thee well" before you left, but we
don't even need a patch to inetd.
In a flash of insight, the veil was lifted from my eyes. We use tcpd
(as do most programs start
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:07:19PM +0200, Michael wrote:
> Hi all, I'm setting up 2 new Edubuntu 7.04 Servers (PCs) for a school.
The very first thing we need to know is: how many workstations are you
planning to support per server?
Scott
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S
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:00:23PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> 1. Do people think this inference is likely correct or is it a concidence and
>something is really wrong?
No, that's exactly what it'll be. So this is normal.
> 2. I guess I should report a minor bug to logcheck guys to go a
Just giving people a status update on where ldm2 is at.
So, over the last couple of days, here's what's working:
Scripted greeter now working.
Indication of password failure, and password re-entry now working.
Password expiry working.
Autologin working.
Support for LDM_DIRECTX working.
New rc.d i
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:15:27PM -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> I would really like to see LDM_SERVER be able to accept fully qualified dns
> names. Then
> I could simply point LDM_SERVER=ltsp.mydomain.com and set up a round robin A
> record in
> DNS where ltsp.mydomain.com resolves to either
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:18:07AM -0400, Alfred Nutile wrote:
> > Scripted greeter now working.
> Al - what does this do over all?
A Display manager is typically split into two pieces: the greeter, and the
display manager proper. The greeter is the bit you interact with: the graphical
bit.
Pre
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 04:57:35PM +0200, Reiner Schmid wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I tried Gutsy Tribe 4 (Edubuntu-Server). Thank you for your
> improvements (particularly ldm2/ltsp).
> A bug: I noticed that a logout (thinclient) of the first user causes a
> relapse to a bash console. No graphic
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:55:36AM -0400, David Trask wrote:
Hey, Dave!
Great news on your conversion!
> I've been perusing the K12OS list as well as the edubuntu-users
> listone very common gripe is the Thin-Client Manager. The lists,
> processes, and things like that are working fine, but
David Trask wrote:
> I have reproduced it on all my servers. Someone mentioned that Tuxmath
> also does the same thing on the Users list. It's driving me "nucking
> futs". Let me be a guinea pigshoot me ideas. Turning off sound did
> appear to solve it, but obviously that ain't an option.
Hello all!
Rapidly approaching on September 13th is what's affectionately known as
the "String Freeze". No, it does not have anything to do with cold balls
of twine, or as yet unproven quantum mechanical explanations of the universe,
but rather, it's when all the text has to be finalized, to give
daniel Newman wrote:
> Hi, I have been looking into Linux and computer programming for
> the past few month. I want to get involved with developing a OS.
When you say "developing a OS", do you mean contributing to some of the
applications that the os runs? Or developing the kernel itself?
> Doe
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> Please someone fix this.
Ogra did.
Scott
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john wrote:
> I am getting reports of lockups as well. It seems to happen while kids
> are using firefox. The only cure is a hard reboot since
> ctrl+alt+backspace is broken in Edubuntu 7.04. We're loosing 6-8 at a
> time. The server has more than enough umph.
Have you read the thread on X_RAMPER
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:11:10PM -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> I'm seeing the same thing in my lab and it's getting downright annoying.
> I keep telling my students that the problem is my inability to correctly
> configure everything, but they're starting to think that Windows is less
> crash-pron
David Trask wrote:
> Scottyjust an ideaany chance of a place to host a template with
> the info you mentioned...similar to Bugzilla? Just for Edubuntu?
It's not a template, it's just common sense. How does anyone possibly
expect people to fix problems WITHOUT all that information, at a b
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:18:07PM -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 23:03 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:11:10PM -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>
> If developers want detailed information, they're going to have to te
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:52:00AM -0700, john wrote:
> I have been experiencing many of the issues that others are reporting
> here. I am glad to hear that I am not the only one. I was feeling
> pretty dumb and bad. I can say categorically that Ubuntu 6.06/LTSP 4.2
> was a more stable tool than E
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:21:22PM -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> Well here I have been trying to figure out how to keep Firefox from freezing
> clients,
> and now I see OpenOffice is a major culprit as well. The best I can do to
> repeat the
> problem for troubleshooting is to create a new Writ
Isaiah wrote:
Snip...
> Their
> main complaint is that Edubuntu is not a good tool for the children to use
> because it is not what is being used in the corporate world and everyday
> life.
Well, I for one use it in my everyday life at home, and we use Ubuntu here
at work for all our 165+ deskto
CET wrote:
> Dear all
>
>
>
> When I first heard about open source and the explanation given I thought
> that was the way to go. We were told open source is good for refurbished
> computers, it enhance the performance of older machines. But if you look at
> the way new versions come out then yo
Matt Sealey wrote:
> I disagree. As someone once said, Linux is only free if your time has no
> value.
It's a trite phrase that sounds good, but means nothing. I can demonstrate
savings of $650K per year. Once you learn how to do something, it's learned.
It costs you nothing further. See below
CET wrote:
> About getting help well it depends on which country you live in, like myself
> I live in Swaziland we lack the expertise you call anyone especially people
> working in computer shops you ask how something is done in open source but
> nothing. I have also been deep in the internet I wo
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:29:31AM -0400, Adrian G. Mowrey wrote:
> This project
> will try its best to solve absolutely any problem that stops hundreds,
> thousands, hundred of thousands, or even millions of boys and girls around
> the world to completely finish a primary schooling because of t
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:51:29AM -0400, Adrian G. Mowrey wrote:
> First of all, I want to thank you for your comments and suggestions. This is
> one of the many projects that U.N. tries to complete (Universal Education).
> I'm an Imagine Cup - Software Design competitor, and this was one of my
>
Forwarding to list.
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:44:31 -0400
From: "Adrian G. Mowrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Scott Balneaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hello,
When I was saying
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:05:56PM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote:
> When I was saying "we," I was referring to the Edubuntu community. I wanted
> the Edubuntu community to try and take "my" idea farther.
The best way to lead is from the front. I think if you want thes
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:56:50AM -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote:
> This is what community is about.
That was what I was trying to hint at, but you've put it about
1x10^6 more eloquently than I did. I came to the same realization, but many
more years ago, with LTSP, pam_ldap, and other projects
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:12:03AM -0800, john wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Surely somebody on the dev list must have an answer or at least a
> pointer. How does X do cleanup when the user logs off? Could a script
> be called from there? Or from the ssh process the user logs in under?
> I really want to f
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:54:28PM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> I think Edubuntu's fate is now entirely in our capable hands.
Oooohhh, boy. Read on...
> I suggest
> we either have a live meeting on IRC at some point in the near future or
> just keep discussing in this thread what is goi
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:16:32PM -0400, David Van Assche wrote:
> If this is real, then I'm up for helping. I wanna see the code first though
> :-) It was me that ripped out the edubuntu ltsp handbook stuff and did the
> ltsp upstream handbook creation, did most of the major rewriting along with
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:18:32AM +, Gustavo Andre wrote:
>
> Hi I´m planning to download edubunto to teaching and learning purposes. I've
> already installed ubunto 9.04, and i have problems to get connected to
> internet. May someone could help to work this problem out. I've an olivetti
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:34:27PM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> I'd like to bring up some of the stuff that I have already posted to the
> mailing list a little while ago. Find the archive entry on
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-devel/2009-July/002922.html
> Specifically, I'd l
Hello all,
So, after a discussion last night, we have some ideas regarding the handbook,
the wiki, and how to tie the two together.
We have 3 goals with the handbook (in no particular order)
1) Try to make it as simple as possible to contribute to, so that average users
who are looking to hel
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:58:55AM -0500, David Groos wrote:
> PS-- upon googling I see a couple of desperate teachers of rooms with
> computer labs or maybe they are the technicians--not sure-- trying to set up
> Sabayon. One entry was just 14 hours ago and another has been trying for
> the last
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 07:45:20PM +0100, Joshua Higgins wrote:
> Source will > be uploaded if required.
Well, if you want anyone to take it as a serious replacement to Sabayon, it's
required :)
If you'd like to get the source up there so we can have a look at it, I'd
certainly be interested.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:23:24PM +0100, Joshua Higgins wrote:
> Uploaded source.
That was fast :)
At this point, we *need* to get something out the door for Karmic, and I'm 3
months into getting sabayon in a working state. So I think for right now, I'm
going to continue on that path.
However,
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 07:57:57AM -0500, David Groos wrote:
> Well, I thought I'd try sabayon and send some feedback even though my
> system's a bit challenged at the moment. Here's my experience:
Not sure what TZ you're in, but if you could pop by #edubuntu tonight, I'd love
to help debug.
Che
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