[nflug] Edubuntu

[eric]

The win2k license would be a $ problem

Darin Perusich wrote:

> instead of dual-booting your machines have you thought about using
> thin-clients instead? when you need to run windows apps you can
> connect to a win2k server via rdesktop. this might make you
> administrative life much easier.
>
> there is a fairly large segment of people running ubuntu on sun's
> sunray thin-client system. the sunray software is free unless you want
> support and you can pickup the sunray thin-clients on ebay starting a
> $5.00.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuOnSunRay
>
> eric wrote:
>
>> Just some FYI, as some of you may know or have figured out ;) I work at
>> school as a systems administrator and have been trying to integrate
>> linux into our classrooms because well ..to put it generically it's
>> simply feasible on many levels. For the past month I have been
>> listening to some talk about Ubuntu from
>> this list, so I decided to check it out and saw that Ubuntu also has a
>> distro called Edubuntu ...finally thrilled ...that a community did all
>> the work at putting together an Educational packaged GNU/Linux nice!
>> This Summer I am testing a dual boot with the default as Edubuntu in our
>> Library the other boot M$.
>> So far I have had to do simple things like installing flash and java to
>> the browser and create an easy to get to login for Samba shares on our
>> network ...how silly... Linux samba clients connecting to Linux Samba
>> servers using Openoffice to open and save everything as word, excel and
>> powerpoint ...it brings a tear to only one eye.
>> The distro comes with so much educational sofware that it might calm the
>> need for expensive software that may or may not work with wine.  I have
>> been encouraging our teachers to look for online educational software
>> that simply uses a browser, and have asked them to let me review the
>> site to make sure it's not using ASP and locked into IE.
>>
>> If I could only find K-12 biology software I think we'd be set.
>>
>> Thanks for the Ubuntu talk.
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