Re: Debian JR. for school project.
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:26:30AM +0000, John Gay wrote:
> The system I would like to set-up consists of:
>
> The most powerful system in the office, with StarOffice, for M$ Office
> compatibility, providing Internet gateway access to the rest of the classroom
> PC's.
Hm, perhaps gateway thru an old 486 instead and run a powerful server
behind that?
> One PC in each classroom networked to the office for Internet service and
> running StarOffice clients as well. Though I've heard at least one experience
> where running StarOffice this way caused nothing but trouble.
I have never tried it. I'm waiting for OpenOffice to go into woody.
> I've been offered upto 20 P100 machines for £1 per Mhz. That's £100 each. My
> current X-Terminal is a 486 with 16M ram, 130M hard drive 1M trident video. The
> display is limited in colour, but more than useful.
Ah well. If the monitors are old, 800x600 @ 16bpp might be better than
1024x768 @ 8bpp anyway. But some apps just aren't meant for anything less
than 1024x768, so you have to live with things spilling off the edge of
the screen if you do that (e.g. Netscape, and I suspect StarOffice as
well).
> Originally I was going to use Mandrake for the systems and Debian for the
> X-Terminals because I like the KDE desktop with Mandrake and have a little
> experience setting up Debian X-Terminals, but Debian JR has made me re-think the
> use of Mandrake. I prefer Debian's superior packaging system, but have found
> Debian to be rather slow in putting things into stable.
Well, hopefully the new "testing" distro will suit you better, then. It's
still not "stable", but it is good enough to run at home. Debian Jr. is
being developed for woody, so we hope that by the time woody goes stable,
we'll have enough in place for you to put into production.
> Thanks for Debian JR. It looks like a great place to get educational
> software for my project. Linux for kids lists more, but I'll see how I
> get on, then put in some requests for other packages as I need them.
> I've always found Debian people to be quite helpful and responsive to
> requests for packages.
Thanks! Yep, we're working away at the linuxforkids stuff, trying to
package as much of it as is suitable for Debian. Keep the requests coming
in. :)
Ben
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