Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 09:11:55 +0200
juh <juh+debian@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Am 01.04.20 um 01:09 schrieb Celejar:
> > I spend some time today trying to find a libre alternative to Zoom,
> > preferably one in the Debian repos, but came up empty. The closest I
> > found were indeed Jitsi Meet (a part of the much larger Jitsi project),
> > and BigBlueButton, libre but designed to be installed on a Ubuntu
> > system. I'm actually puzzled by why there doesn't seem to be any easy,
> > solid libre alternative to Zoom.
>
> My hosting cooperative Hostsharing runs BigBlueButton on Debian
> machines. We recently made a stress test with 47 participants to see
> what requirements are needed in reality.
>
> BBB is running pretty stable on the server side. Participants should
> have a decent internet connection as bandwith is paramount especially if
> many participants stream video and audio.
>
> We wrote a report about our test in German.
>
> https://www.hostsharing.net/blog/2020/03/30/bigbluebutton-im-lasttest/
>
> Use a translation server if you want to read it all but the figures
> should be clear enough.
>
> Don't feed the next big corp that spies on us. ;-)
Thanks - I'd love to avoid feeding them to the extent that I can
reasonably do so ;)
How easy is it in practice to install on Debian? The following statement
in the FAQ scared me off:
*****
BigBlueButton requires Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit. See Install BigBlueButton.
We (the core developers) have not installed BigBlueButton on any other
version of Ubuntu. It probably won’t work.
*****
https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/support/faq.html
If the core developers are skeptical that it'll work on even other
versions of Ubuntu, that doesn't sound all that promising for Debian ...
Celejar
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