Re: [school-discuss] Linux LiveCD Distribution

[Chris Topher <gromto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, and since it is an independent distribution, you may do all of this without risking harm to the reputations of major contributors.

If you muck it up, and make a mess of it, you have only made a mess of our little project, not the major contributors.

Also, installing a general purpose Desktop Distro and then customizing it by downloading and installing software through a package manager (not always successful) can take days, if not weeks to get it just so.

To download worksheets and install student management software and complete the project could take several people a month.

This project saves you this time by providing you the software and contentt and OS all in one swell foop.

Chris



jim stockford <jim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>     the value in what Chris Topher has described, as I
> see it,
>  is the "live" CD or DVD and the fact that it's
> modifiable by the users.
>     The benefits are that
> * the "live" CD or DVD can be used on any computer
> that boots from the drive (and has the appropriate
> CPU-motherboard systems) without wiping out
> whatever is on that computer's hard drive
> * teachers can customize the product offering to
> their class and school needs
> * the work teachers do can be submitted to the central
> builders to allow local work to be exposed to the entire
> world.
>
>
> On Sep 21, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Doug wrote:
>
> > Chris Topher wrote:
> >> Now that I have been successful at signing in, and introducing 
> >> myself, I can respond to everyone's questions.
> >>
> >> In the future, you will not have to wait for days to get an answer.
> > I have a question.  It's not meant as a criticism, but as an 
> > exploration of the best way to get educational software to the end 
> >
>  users. Have you considered, rather than creating a SchoolForge LiveCD 
> > distro, making software repositories of all the educational software 
> > that could be added to the repository lists for major distros such as 
> > Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Fedora, Debian, etc.?  By doing that you wouldn't 
> > be competing for "mindshare" with all the other distros but enhancing 
> > what they have to offer.  I know of 3rd-party repositories that 
> > already enhance various distros, like Dries, DAG, FreshRPMs, and 
> > ATRPMs, for example.  Might this be something to consider rather than 
> > creating another full-blown distro?
> >
> > Doug Loss
> >

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