Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: edubuntu-desktop
This is not strictly a bug at all BUT is SO IMPORTANT that I could not
let this go.
Making Edubuntu an add-on CD (effectively just a small Debian repository
on a CD) rather than being a bootable distribution in its own right has
destroyed the reason for Edubuntu to exist in the first place.
Edubuntu (7.10 and earlier) was fantastic for demonstrating how amazing
Linux and open source education applications are to teachers and
schoolchildren (who are normally completely brainwashed by Microsoft
into thinking that PCs cannot be used without Windows/Office). Standard
desktop Ubuntu (good as it is) does not have the appeal to children that
the themed and child-oriented Edubuntu desktop has.
If we are to push Ubuntu into schools (especially in the UK which is
pretty hostile to Linux at the moment) then we need bootable Live CDs
(or Live DVDs) of Edubuntu for demonstration purposes. I realize that I
can build my own Live CD with UCK *BUT* this is then not an officially
supported Ubuntu distribution.
Come on guys - the time to act is NOW! Vista is very unpopular and this
is a real window of opportunity to push Edubuntu into schools. Having
Edubuntu as an add-on CD is completely pointless - users might as well
install "edubuntu-desktop" from Synaptic.
** Affects: edubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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No point in Edubuntu without it being a distribution
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335455
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