Re: Terminal server under Debian-Edu
Dear Ben!
I did not understand quite good what you wanted to tell me.
There is a special need in a school environment for:
1. very easy installation, more easy than it will be with the future Debian
installer.
2. special pre-configured servers and clients as I have mentioned in my last
eMail.
3. special software administration tools as other members already have
mentioned (the 6-12 and the above 12 thing for instance, network
administration, internet access control by classroom)
4. and of course special applications which will only be used in a school
environment (like mathematical, astronomical, geographical educational
software etc.)
What of all these is the project not supposed to do? And who then will
develop these things?
I only know: If there is a Debian distribution not containing most of these
useful things I won't use it.
Stefan
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
To: <debian-edu@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Terminal server under Debian-Edu
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:29:30PM +0200, Stefan Padberg wrote:
> > I think the DebianEdu project should divide in two branches: one
> > concentrating in developing good application software, and the other
should
> > concentrate on good installation and server software.
>
> A small clarification here on point one, here. Debian generally does not
> develop software (except in support of the project itself: packaging
tools,
> archive management scripts, etc.) So, s/developing/packaging/ and we are
in
> agreement.
>
> Regarding point two, neither of these two things (installation and server
> software) are edu-specific needs. So while DebianEdu should encourage the
> development of, and make an effort to make effective use of other Debian
> subprojects like the debian-installer project and debian-cd (both of
which,
> I understand, have yet to be integrated,) it should itself be only a
> consumer/supporter of these things, and should not make them its primary
> work.
>
> Now, please don't get the idea that I am throwing cold water on your
ideas.
> These things are certainly necessary ingredients of making a successful
> education-oriented distribution. But one of the virtues of being a
> *sub*project of Debian is that DebianEdu gets to pick and choose the parts
> of the problem of making a high-quality distribution that it is
particularly
> interested in and skilled at doing, while leaving the rest to the rest of
> the project.
>
> And all of that being said, many of us (Debian developers) wear many hats.
> If I can see that helping out another subproject within Debian will
benefit
> my own project, then I will do so. For example, wearing my "DebianJr
> project leader" hat, I have learned the above principle (basically summed
up
> as "pick an area of Debian to focus on, and stick to it"). And wearing my
> "DebianEdu member" hat, I now share it with you, in the hopes that it will
> help the group rapidly get off to a productive start.
>
> Ben
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