yeap, that should be the ideal case. we should provide them option to choose what distro they want to use. I would suggest to use cobbler and put 3-4 distro's and ask student's for their choice of distro and install on fly.
Regards, Vijai .G On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:45 AM, km <srikrishnamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > just my few thoughts on this thread. > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Baskar Selvaraj <bas...@linuxpert.in> wrote: >>> >>> what do you mean by FOSS Lab setup? >> >> >> The lab which is completely installed/equipped with all proprietary >> equivalent FOSS tools for doing their practicals. >> >> >>> What are the components, OS, application you guys usually install? >>> >> >> Nearly 4500+ packages from Fedora-13 repository (refer the fedora-13 >> kickstart file for the components/applications that gets installed) >> >> http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/ks-f13.cfg-4500 > Why only Fedora ? why not popular linux distributions like ubuntu ? > or debian ? with ~30k packages ??? > infact debian/ubuntu offers much more choices for packages for > students. Debian has been very popular with scientific community. > many people are no aware of such a wide variety of choice until one > looks at the categorized package list in debian/ubuntu. > These lab setups are a good opportunity to create awareness on such a > choice also I guess. > >> >> When you say setup, do you guys help them to setup or you do it all by >> your self. >> Both (Only in few colleges the lab in-charge/system admin. prefers doing >> themself, rest we setup ourself). > > Well there is little use if sys admins set up themselves. It should > be an interactive environment where everyone participates and learns. > it is more imp to get the message straight to the people by hands on > practise. > > regards, > KM > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Vijai Ganapathy Mailto: vijai.ganapa...@gmail.com Mobile : +919632351915 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
