On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 11:25 -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote: > Hey all, Hi Jordan, welcome to Edubuntu!
> I'm Jordan Erickson - I own a small network consulting and support > company in Northern California. I've started following Edubuntu heavily > in the recent months, and have just 2 weeks ago started my first > Edubuntu thin client network with a customer of mine. Things are going > well, they're on Dapper Flight-6 (I know I know...but it just looks so > much better!) We're ironing out bugs as we go (most of which I'm > associating with the server being a dual PIII 550 with only 512MB ram). > It serves 6 laptops as thin clients, with another 6-7 workstations in > the works. Nice! If you can't upgrade the RAM, I would suggest trying XFCE for those machines, it's much less memory intensive. > I did have a question which I saw a little bit of before - The "Users > and Groups" GUI seems to act up sometimes, acting very sluggish and > sometimes not starting up at all (with a 'working' mouse cursor > remaining in Gnome), even under little/no other network/server load. We've had that problem in tuXlabs before too. It happens often when you add a lot of users, and then click on Ok. It's best to add 5 users at a time max, and then click on Ok. YMMV > Any insight would be greately appreciated - the kids love Edubuntu! I'm > going to be submitting some things that might be of use to the Edubuntu > community, such as actual child surveys on the system (what they > like/don't like), and possibly some lesson plans involving Edubuntu that > the staff are creating as I type. Wow, I'm sure lots of educators would appreciate it if you could feed that back! -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
