Hi Jim On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 15:40 +0400, Jim Mendenhall wrote: > Before we can get approval for the project, we need to submit a proposal > to our bosses. I've also set up a demo server and a few workstations. I > have a few questions (as do my bosses) that we need to have answered > before we can commit to transitioning to Edubuntu.
That sounds great! > 1. Is it possible (or will it be possible with the final Dapper > release) to mount local floppy drives on the thin clients? What about > USB flash drives? The students will need a way to save documents, this > is a must-have feature for us. You could use MToolsFM to copy files to and from a local floppy, although local access using Nautilus, etc won't be possible yet. MToolsFM apparently supports local USB disk mounting too, some people use it with K12-LTSP, although I haven't ever attempted to use it before for USB. > 2. What is the easiest way to configure a default gnome configuration? > I need to make a default configuration for students that includes the > Russian and English keyboard, the panel widget that switches languages, > etc. Create a user, and set it up like you would want your default user to be. When it's all set up like you would want it, remove all the unnecassary files in that directory (if you accidentally run Firefox, it will add an entire 2MB to your directory). Try keeping that directory smaller than 1MB. If you do need to set up default firefox, etc settings, most programs have other places for default settings, use that instead. You can then copy that home directory to /etc/skel, and all the new users that will be created will inherit these settings. > 3. I'm having a problem (now that I've updated the system with the 300+ > MB of updates ... so I assume that I'm at Flight 6 now) with not being > able to log in with the main administrator account on a remote thin > client. Is this a new feature, or is something broke? I would assume that something broke. Is it just the administrator you can't log in as, or all users? > 4. Is there a source of documentation besides the wiki? I don't seem > to be able to find much documentation on Edubuntu at all (especially the > LTSP part and how it differs from standard LTSP). What would be the > best way for us to get involved in helping to document an Edubuntu lab > install? We want to be a help to the community if we are able to do the > project. I've thought of writing something that compares LTSP.org with Ubuntu LTSP, but it hasn't exactly been high priority for me at this stage (there isn't a huge demand for it). On documentation, if there's something you're knowledgeable at, and there's not a wiki page that covers the area yet, you are by all means welcome to write something up, and to feed it back to this list (so that other people can proofread it, etc). Edubuntu documentation is a bit of a hot topic at the moment, and I'm sure the available documentation will improve quite drastically in the next few months. > 5. Does anyone know of a multi-lingual dictionary that supports Russian? I'm not sure, you mean one for OpenOffice? You might also want to look at Rosetta on http://www.launchpad.net. There you can do some translations of your own as well. If there's a bunch of other people also interested in translating, you could even start a translation team there. -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
