Dennis Bagley wrote: > Somebody (I think Sebastian) on Sunday was talking about doing some kind > of school project. Here's a link with some facts and figures that might > help in conversing with whatever school is approached. The distro > referenced is the L12LTSP distro that is specifically targeted at > education markets. > > http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/smb/2006/012953.html > > Here's the link for K12LTSP > http://www.k12ltsp.org/
I'd like to also put a plug in for Edubuntu (http://www.edubuntu.org), the educational derivative of Ubuntu. It is similar to K12LTSP in that it uses LTSP heavily and it's distinguished from Ubuntu mainly in that has an installer option for installing an LTSP server (it also has different default artwork and apps, but that's easy to change). In fact, Edubuntu works very closely with the LTSP developers and recently the Edubuntu implementation of LTSP has become the offical LTSP source. Also, some of the selling points of Edubuntu over K12LTSP are that it is more secure (using ssh for all communication from server to client), has a wealth of applications that can be installed (Edubuntu has access to the same software repositories as Ubuntu, so basically Debian+), and upgrading is a bit smoother than with K12LTSP. People have also reported Edubuntu as being more stable and giving a bit better performance. (http://www.edubuntu.org/UsingEdubuntu is a little pamphlet like page that has and overview of Edubuntu and apps) I'm not trying to knock K12LTSP or anything, just trying to throw out some options. K12LTSP has been around longer and many people are happy with it and what really matters is getting a solid Linux OS on those computers so kids can enjoy the world of FLOSS. OK, so enough from me. -Jordan Mantha _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
