On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, David Groos <djgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the previous e-mail, Jordan, you explained how Sabayon works with user > profiles. Would you say this is the ideal approach? What do others think? > Why did the creators/maintainers abandon the project or I should say leave > it to 1 side? Did they become frustrated with patching this particular > approach? Should a new approach be started? Is this practical is a > different question :-) What do others who know of the guts of Sabayon, > think?
I wouldn't say it is necessarily an ideal approach, it's just an approach. If you want pretty complete control of a user's $HOME it's a good way to go and is an impressive app. It may be overkill for a lot of people though. Sabayon was created by Red Hat (presumably for enterprise use). I really credit them for doing a heck of a job on it. For whatever reason Red Hat sort of stopped really developing. It could be it was feature complete enough for what they wanted. I think some of the devs may have left Red Hat at some point as well. There are a few people from Red Hat who continue to maintain Sabayon and it does apparently work fine in Fedora, but there hasn't been anybody really working on it for Debian/Ubuntu. I think it's useful to break down the problem into discrete tasks that you, as an educator, need to accomplish. Then tools can either be extended or created to meet those needs. For instance, sabayon does not prevent users from executing applications, it can just remove them from the menu. Sabayon doesn't change the user menu in any dynamic way, that's what edubuntu-menu can hopefully provide. Sabayon doesn't provide for any management of currently running sessions, iTalic is more along those lines. What I'd really love to see is a nice page (on wiki.ubuntu.com and then perhaps moved to edubuntu.org eventually) that has educator tasks and apps that can do the task. The tasks should be fairly specific but general enough they will appeal to broad audiences. This would not only be helpful to developers so they can provide needed apps, but also for fellow educators looking for what to use. -Jordan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
