My department has recently (hallelujah!) and after much controversy decided to install linux in our labs. It will have to be dual bot with Windoze, but that's life, and by the by.
What I was wodnering was this: it seemed a good idea to produce our own distribution which we could hand to the students (particularly the first years, some of whom have very little experience) for them to install on their home systems and have the same desktop setup as at school. (Before I go on I should point out that we are a community college, not high school, so our requirements are somewhat different - e.g. java) It also seemed obvious to me (the recent convert) that basing it on RH or similar would be creating an ongoing upgrade problem for ourselves and the students (and the distinct likelihood of their getting themselves into "RPM dependency hell" - I spent some time there myself before seeing the light) so I now need to persuade our very RH-oriented techhie to go with Debian. So: am I about to reinvent the wheel? Has somebody already done this or similar? Are there any resources people know about? Pointers? Suggestions? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
