Re: Need some direction with edu packages ported from ubuntu to debian

2018-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
Cc'ing debian-outreach On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 09:23:13PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > * identify educational packages in Ubuntu that are not in Debian > * package them for Debian As far as I know, all packages recommended via the meta-packages in question: ubuntu-edu-{preschool|primary|seco

Re: Need some direction with edu packages ported from ubuntu to debian

2018-07-02 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 2:13 PM Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > > To my understanding it's all about: > (1) the meta-package namespace > (2) the approach how to organize the educational packages into > meta-packages > (3) the list of packages such a meta-package recommends. > > ad 1) I propose to use th

Re: Need some direction with edu packages ported from ubuntu to debian

2018-07-02 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi, On Mo 02 Jul 2018 12:56:32 CEST, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 2:13 PM Wolfgang Schweer wrote: To my understanding it's all about: (1) the meta-package namespace (2) the approach how to organize the educational packages into meta-packages (3) the list of packages such a

Re: Need some direction with edu packages ported from ubuntu to debian

2018-07-02 Thread Deepanshu
Hello mike, > How do you handle the DHCP / PXE boot stuff in a classroom that > already has DHCP setup for the site? We have created `settings.sh` the configuration file in which user can specify if they already have a dhcp server running. In that case ltsp server will not provide dhcp services.

Re: Need some direction with edu packages ported from ubuntu to debian

2018-07-02 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:24 PM Mike Gabriel < mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: > > How do you handle the DHCP / PXE boot stuff in a class room that > already has DHCP setup for the site? > These docs answer your question: - https://github.com/docker-scripts/dev--LTSP/wiki/LTSP-Modes-of-Op

Re: Need some direction with edu packages ported from ubuntu to debian

2018-07-02 Thread Mike Gabriel
On Mo 02 Jul 2018 14:23:52 CEST, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: However we are planning to add support for thin clients as well, if possible. Laptops with 8GB of RAM are becoming common nowadays, and some people may even have more RAM. So, it should not be so scary to run LTSP with thin clients. A diffi