Re: [seul-edu] LWN: PTS News & DebianEdu's future

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Dennis Daniels wrote:
> Is anybody out there familiar with Knoppix? I really see more of a life 
> when the installation/testing of apps is as easy as loading a CD... it 
> sounds like DebianEdu and SEUL/ISO could really benefit by embracing a 
> packaging structure like Knoppix...
Lots of us are familiar with it.  I can't speak for DebianEdu, 
but for the SEUL/edu ISO we don't really want a bootable CD.  For 
one thing, that would limit us to the apps that could be jammed 
onto a single CD after the OS takes its cut, and I think we'll 
have too many apps for that to work.  For another, we're 
positioning this as an addition to an existing Linux installation 
rather than a stand-alone product; that way, any distro 
manufacturer can take our ISO and combine it with his distro to 
make an educational specialty distro.  I think that will give us 
more capacity for getting into the schools (the ubiquity of the 
product) than a separate bootable CD would.  Having said all 
that, I think the Knoppix and Freeduc methods are emminently 
worth pursuing.  It's just that we're looking at a slightly 
different path to a similar goal.

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