Re: should we ship iceweasel (firefox) on the first cd?
I have regular battles with parents, where I have to justify our use of
free software. I work at quite an expensive school where many of our
parents work with MS products every day, and believe their kids should
too.
Firefox, however, is one app I usually don't have to defend. I am afraid
that will change if kids start going home saying they use iceweasel now. I
can just see parents cursing the crack-pot teacher who stops their kids
using 'real' software and who is now saying that even firefox isn't free
enough. Is it too late to rename iceweasel to something sensible?
I say leave it off the CD and I will install firefox from mozilla.
As for the Gimp, I regularly have 15 or more students using it on my
Athlon 64 single CPU server. I just make them set the tile cache really
low (48 or even 32). I use the Gimp with grades 5 and above. I've had many
kids say their parents installed it for them at home.
However, its just an apt-get away, so it doesn't matter as much as firefox.
nigel
> Halvor Dahl wrote:
>> Luk Claes wrote:
>>> You do understand that if you consider using the Firefox name in
>>> Debian-Edu
>>> that you have to ask Mozilla if all changes are OK and that this
>>> means if you
>>> do it properly quite some changes to the Debian version? It's not
>>> like Mozilla
>>> took care that you only have to change the name in one location, but
>>> all over
>>> the place...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea how much work is really involved in this
>> process? It
>> would be worth an effort to be able to keep the Firefox name. I would
>> guess the
>> Mozilla guys are reasonable people.
>>
> Keeping the firefox name is a lot of work.
> - someone must create this package, and maintain it. not to mention
> security patches, and firefox have it's share of those. And when all
> security patches must be preaproved by mozilla corp before we can use
> them. This will be a more work then it's worth.
> - we must have it in our own repository, creating work for ftpmasters
> and drift
>
> Personaly i feel that if someone have the needed time to do this. they
> could do a _LOT_ of good things with
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Etch
>
> Besides why jump thru loopholes when we dont have to ? iceweasel is bug
> for bug compatible with firefox.
>
> Ronny
>
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