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Re: [school-discuss] Re: [school-discuss] bootable CDs?



Hi Daniel,

First, go to edubuntu.org and click on the shipit option, contact them and 
explain that you'd like a bunch of CD's to distribute at your conference.  
They will send them to you, free, they are awesome.  The new CDs are live 
CDs, as well as installers, and also have a terminal server install mode 
which is apropos to your conference talk subject.

Also, check out the open cd (theopencd.org), that is a dual-mode cd that 
includes both a live linux environment as well as Windows installers for 
popular programs, and is polished and has been around for some time.

My CD is in an early stage now, it is also a dual-mode LiveCD/Windows 
Installer project, but I plan on having version II done around Halloween.

Shane
EDU-Nix Open Source Schoolware
Free Software for Public Schools
www.edu-nix.org

Version II Beta I is out!
http://www.edu-nix.org/livecdtoo/


On Saturday 30 September 2006 12:37, Daniel Howard wrote:
> I agree this sounds great too.  I'm presenting a talk on K12LTSP at the
> upcoming Georgia Educational Technology Conference in November here in
> Atlanta, and I think I too should have a bunch of disks to hand out.
>
> One thing I noticed missing on Richard's disk is the Edutainment OSS
> with which our teachers have been having a blast: Tuxtypes, GCompris,
> Childsplay, etc.  (The windows versions have fewer games than Linux, but
> it's still quite functional.)
>
> I'm now thinking for CDs we might give to our parents to take home, we'd
> offer two: one Linux live CD with all the edutainment and office
> software we're using at Brandon, and a windows OSS CD like Richard's for
> folks to install OSS at home easily, especially if they're still using
> dialup for Internet.  Would this be as simple to do as just downloading
> all the installation files for the windows OSS apps, copying them to CD
> as well as an html document with links to launch the installation apps
> and an autorun.inf file on the CD?  Or just have all the installation
> executables automatically launched in the autorun.inf file?  My first
> time at this obviously...
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Richard,
> >
> > Your disk sounds like a good one to bring to my presentation as well.  I
> > agree that every school should at least be using the Windows versions of
> > OpenOffice, Firefox, the Gimp, Blender, LyX, Mozilla Composer, Jazz,
> > Solfege, and UltraPlayer!  :)
> >
> > Marilyn
> >
> > Quoting Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx>:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> All thought not a boot able CD but along the same lines as the
> >> Opencd.org project, I make a disk I call WinOSSCDRom. The big think
> >> about my disk is that all the software must have both windows and Linux
> >> versions. I made the disk to be a stepping stone for user to move from
> >> Windows to Linux. If a user can move most or all of his daily apps to
> >> the ones on the WinOSSCDrom disk them getting them to move to Linux is
> >> only a single step away. If Linux can not be done at least they get some
> >> great software.
> >>
> >> If anyone is interested you can get more info and the torrent file see
> >> http://www.rlhc.net/blog/?page_id=71
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> +------------------------------------+
> >> Best regards,
> >> -Richard Houston
> >> -R.L.H.  Consulting
> >> -E-Mail  rhouston@xxxxxxxx
> >> -WWW     http://www.rlhc.net
> >> -Blog    http://www.rlhc.net/blog/
> >>
> >>> Suggest y'all look at http://www.theopencd.org/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I give a copy of this CD to each of the Intro Computer students at the
> >>> Sylmar High School Magnet, where I teach.  If you put the CD into a
> >>> Windows PC, it allows you to install some excellent applications like
> >>> OpenOffice.org, Blender, GIMP, and Firefox.  If, on the other hand, you
> >>> boot from the CD, your get a live version of Ubuntu, with the above
> >>> applications and more.
> >>>
> >>> /francis
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ---------- Original Message -------------
> >>> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:29:47 -0700
> >>> From: "" <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> To: "" <schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Subject: [school-discuss] bootable CDs?
> >>>
> >>>> Does anyone else see the potential in bootable CDs?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I used them the moment I discovered them back in 2003.  I was teaching
> >>>>  keyboarding and Knoppix 3.2 had a copy of LyX on it.  The students
> >>>> used LyX to write reports for their other classes.  I sent a Knoppix
> >>>> CD home with every kid at the end of the term.
> >>>>
> >>>> Since then I've kept up with Knoppix and frequently have used it as my
> >>>> primary OS, using my hard disk just for storage.  Since my technical
> >>>> expertise is not at the level of most of you on this list (music
> >>>> teacher . . . yesterday I spent the day playing "Hot Cross Buns" on
> >>>> recorders all day), I appreciate that Knoppix usually sees my hardware
> >>>> and networks easily.  It's much less complicated then messing with an
> >>>> installation.
> >>>>
> >>>> Last Spring someone from the schoolforge list sent out a link to
> >>>> Frozen Tech's
> >>>> Live CD List.  http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Wow!  That was like Christmas!  I had no idea there were so many
> >>>> flavors!
> >>>>
> >>>> I found two I liked for school use right away.  I use Kanotix to print
> >>>> out posters, but the most important for me is Musix.
> >>>>
> >>>> For the past two years I have been teaching music at an intermediate
> >>>> school. Musix is a bootable music studio.  I boot from the Musix CD,
> >>>> it sees the sound card and presto - I've got sequencers, synthesizers,
> >>>> music notation editors, drum machines, a music theory game and even a
> >>>> guitar tuner.  I have permission from my system administrator to use
> >>>> bootables so next week I am taking all of my music classes to the lab
> >>>> to run Musix.  We will play the music game, play with the drum
> >>>> machine, and write a recorder song using only five notes.
> >>>>
> >>>> Couldn't we have a bootable CD for each subject area - math, science,
> >>>> writing, art?  A teacher can use bootables without the district
> >>>> adopting a new OS.
> >>>>
> >>>> We will be using Samba Network Neighborhood to save our work on
> >>>> district servers.
> >>>>
> >>>> Of course you all know about Freeduc.  I use that with my little kids
> >>>> at home.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am giving a presentation on bootable CDs at our local TCEA
> >>>> conference on 10/28.  It will be interesting to see if anyone attends!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Later,
> >>>> Marilyn

-- 
Shane Coyle
Founder, EDU-Nix.org Project
www.edu-nix.org