onsdag 15. mars 2006, 01:03, skrev Knut Yrvin: > Tirsdag 14 mars 2006 23:34, skrev Rachel Elizabeth Dillon: > > I figured this was my chance. > > If this is OK, I'll post this nice press statement on various lists > :-). Does somebody else have feedbacks on this? > > -- Debian-Edu/Skolelinux 2.0 ready for free use! > > After twenty-one months of development, Skolelinux has released > a new version. Skolelinux, the Debian-edu project's Custom Debian > Distribution, is installed in hundreds of schools in Norway, Germany, > and other countries. Many municipalities use Skolelinux across all of > their schools; such centralized operation offers low maintenance and > operational costs. Skolelinux is free and open source software, and > for those schools that need assistance, many commercial organizations > offer maintenance and support solutions. > > The new version of Skolelinux offers recent versions of popular > programs such as OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox, and GCompris -- all in > many languages. You can't/shouldn't use the word "recent" here, it's just not so correct :-) We offer on the cd rather outdated versions of this popular software; OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 _not_ the recent 2.0 Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 _not_ the recent 1.5 GCompris 6.5 _not_ the recent 7.3 (7.4 is in beta) I ofcourse know that this is the way it is in Debian Stable, but a lot of potential users of Skolelinux/Debian-edu will interpret "recent" rather differently. And installing backports of the above mentioned software is not exactly trivial. > A wide variety of educational software is also > available. Thin client support has been improved, and it is now > possible to install half-thick clients. Half-thick clients allow for > full use of newer hardware, offering support for CD/DVD-ROM, USB-pen, > and audio devices. Since all software is distributed from the > Skolelinux servers, maintenance costs on half-thick clients are still > kept low. I'm not sure about this one; has anybody actually managed to install such a half-thick client? Do we have any documentation on how to make use of CD/DVD-ROM, USB-pen, and audio devices? Klaus -- 67E61D18B2C44F8A3DA35C6D849F9F5F 26FA477D
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