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Feedback and question from Peru



Hi list,

I had another class of Peruvian teachers today and showed them how to install Skolelinux. We just installed the standalone machines because that's the setup they are currently going to use. The feedback about the installation was: easier than installing Windows. And that sentence didn't come from me but from a teacher who had never before installed Linux (though he may have used Pekelin, I'm not sure). Anyway, good job and let's continue the great work to easy installation!

Now I have two questions. It would be great if somebody could answer them, even though I know you are all very busy with preparing the next Skolelinux RC.

First, this was the first time that I actually used the KDE interface. At the Diego Thomson we install Gnome on the machine. The KDE menu doesn't seem to be very ordered. For example it always includes KOffice and OpenOffice.org. Wouldn't it be easier to just include one of them in the menus? Also the educational software is nowhere to be seen. There are a few hidden in the Debian menu. But the KDE menu doesn't show them. Is this a bug (i.e. used to work) or has this never been considered?

The second question involves network configuration. Is there an easy KDE GUI for configuring network cards? They will install the systems in networks where there is no DHCP server. So it should be possible to configure the network somehow. And I'd really like to give them a GUI instead of 'vi /etc/network/interfaces' (or pico or kate or whatever).

Thanks for any help
Patrice



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