El jue, 29-05-2008 a las 12:38 +0900, nigel barker escribió: > Dear List, > > I have a few amateur questions. > > 1. Is it possible (I mean easy) to install plain debian, then convert to > debian edu? How? > It should be possible installing education-xxx metapackages. Then, depending on the profile you like, some hacking should be needed to become a ltsp server, main server, etc. > 2. Does anyone have experience of debian edu on an eeepc? (or cloudbook, > etc.) As a workstation I suppose, but maybe standalone. Does anyone > advise me for or against buying a set of eeepc for my school? There is a project on Debian for eeepc: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC There you should find all the needed docs to make it run smoothly in Debian. I've had an eeepc in my hands and player a little bit with it. I think it's fine for geeks or for little children, but, in my opinion, the small keyboard makes it a bad option for children > 10 years. The small screen might be also a problem, but I'm not so sure of it, as children have usually better view than adults, and the laptop is going to be very near to the eyes. Anyway, there are more options around [1] that might be, at least, as attractive as the eeepc. I had now on my desktop a hp mininote 2133 [2]. It's also a small laptop (1.090 gr weighted in my kitchen scales ;-), but with a full sized keyboard and a bigger screen. The worst part for all these laptops is obviously that their perfomance is pretty bad, even with 1 gb of RAM (as the mininote has), it's really slow, not only with OpenOffice, but also when watching youtube videos or playing flash games. I know that's not the goal of these laptops, but it will customize the opinion the students (and their parents) have about where we spend their money. > > 3. (How) can a workstation user access the local harddrive, eg. for > storing photos and videos that I don't want on tjener? > Good question ;-) I also would like to know the answer. Maybe Vagrant can put some light on us... Cheers. José L [1] http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/over-past-six-months-or-so-asus-everex_24.html [2] http://h71016.www7.hp.com/html/interactive/2133/model.html?buyNowLink=default&quickspecs=default&jumpid=re_r2515_store_3d/NBT/2133|ProdPage|flash http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/hp-2133-mini-note.aspx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFj3cUzmin8&feature=related
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