Re: SEUL/edu ISO project (was Re: [school-discuss] introduction to the SEUL/edu ISO project (was Re: [school-discuss] introduction to the

[brett hartshorn <bhartsho@yahoo.com>]

I've downloaded ofset's freeduc img.  It is great, just pop the cd in, reboot, and you have linux
with all the educational apps ready to go.

I think this is the first step schools should take, there is no reason not to try it.  They do not
have to format their hard drives, or install a single thing.

Running off the cdrom makes it a little slow, but it wasn't too bad.

-brett

--- Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net> wrote:
> On 2003-01-03 23:22:09 +0100 bruno <bruno.coudoin@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean by easily installable.
> > Unfortunatly, on due to the diversity of GNU/Linux, it is practicaly
> > impossible to create binary packages that can be installed on any
> > GNU/Linux distro out there.
> > 
> Definitely so.
> 
> > Creating a CD full of rpm .deb of .tgz files is good but don't 
> > expect it
> > to make inroads in schools. Just too hard to install.
> > 
> As to that, take a look at <http://www.seul.org/edu/Phase3.html> and 
> <http://www.seul.org/edu/Phase4.html>.  We (at least, I) hope to use 
> something like Synaptic to provide an easy installation method.
> 
> > This way, any user can use our free software educational stuff 
> > without
> > even installing GNU/Linux !!
> > 
> But we _want_ them to install Linux!
> 
> > Now the CD is ready, we are working on a little paper book that 
> > will go
> > with the CD.
> > Most important, we are still looking for having founds to burn large
> > numbers of it.
> > 
> That's always the problem, isn't it?
> 
> > Based on the information I have, there is at least 300 schools in 
> > france
> > using the abuledu french Linux distribution for schools. Of course
> > gcompris is part of abuledu ;)
> > 
> We're not including AbulEdu, SLIS, kmLinux, L12LTSP, or any of the 
> other scholastic distros in our CD, both because they're all quite 
> large and because we hope our CD might be useful to them all as a 
> possible add-on to their distros.  If we package it correctly, it's 
> possible Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE, and others can use it as the basis 
> for education-oriented versions of their distros (with their own 
> installers, of course).
> 
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