I am a Linux newbie and just starting playing with edubuntu a few days ago.
I must say that I am quite impressed by edubuntu, the programs it contains, its ease of use and the ease of adding programs using Add Programs or Synaptic. I am trying to get faculty and students of my College of Education at the Univesity of Illinois knowledgeable about Edubuntu and we now have a rolling cart with eight laptops with WiFi set up with Edubuntu for demo purposes.
I can see myself eventually migrating from Windows XP and Mac OS X to Linux. And I can certainly appreciate the potential of edubuntu for education. But there are still some issues I need to work out. They deal mostly with multimedia, such as being able to to view Windows Media Player and RealPlayer audio and video as Firefox plug-ins and being to hear and view MP3 and DVD videos.
For some reason, the Totem Player refuses to play anything (MP3s or DVDs) and I cannot get RealPlayer to run either after having installed it. I also installed VLC media player, and I can't get that to play DVDs either.
So if anyone has recommendations about how the easiest way to give edubuntu the most multimedia capability, I would appreciate hearing about it.
A final question is using a laptop with WiFi. It was easy to use the Network tool to get edubuntu to connect with my home WiFi system. But that's because I knew the name (SSID?) of the network. But what about free public access WiFi hotspots? Can edubuntu sniff these out so I can connect when I don't know what networks may be available.
--Gary
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