Hi,
We Love the new Edubuntu 10.10.... and it might be a choice that we can
recommend for use at children's summer camps (like school lab use) and have
been testing this application for use in an "Digital Photo Lab" as a
educational tool to save money and keep using some really old computers with
only 128 MB or RAM. There are lots' of PROS,and to our surprise with 10.10
there are very few CONS! Still needs some attention in a few small places.
And the testing of LibreOffice on Edubuntu (only problems is that LibreOffice
RC 1 is making same mistake that the Ubuntu used version of OpenOffice made
with the File-->Wizards-->Address Data Sources being not comparable to the Sun
OpenOffice's version of the same (more on that later).
Just wanted to say that we finally like using LTSP on Edubuntu since the last
version with the easier to use install. However, to make it better we have
loaded the Lubuntu (and/or LXDE) onto it and we get much faster performance
(and it uses less RAM). We also installed Gwenview (loads only the KDE parts
we need resulting in a faster Gwenview than even on Kubuntu), we also use
Thunderbird, and never us Evolution. We are testing out LibreOffice on this
Edubuntu LXDE server (more on that below).
The LXDE folks that I have emailed with, are very interested in getting
Lubuntu as a "formerly adopted" distro within the Ubuntu family.
The only problem running LXDE so far on Edubuntu Client is that when we put a
USB card from a camera or USB memory stick into the client's USB port that no
prompt to open the USB card file listing in file manager pops up like it does
with Gnome running as the client desktop in Edubuntu. AND - when we log in
every time, there is a lack of memory of the ICON placement from the previous
login session, and we have to fix that every time.
But overall - WE LOVE LXDE on EDUBUNTU SERVER!!!!! Using that, and installed
the LUBUNTU CORE from synaptic install of these. Very nice, much faster.
Really, the Edubuntu team should look at adopting Lubuntu as it's
default install due to the lower RAM use advantages. It is easy to use the
KDE educational apps from the LXDE or Lubuntu desktop (and much faster to load
them too), AND uses less RAM over all.
WE also use it to run RDP over the network via Rdesktop - from a MIcrosoft 2008
Server --> to the LTSP server in order to run a few Microsoft applications that
we still need to run. The only problem with this so far, is minor in that the
CAPS LOCK key does not stay in either CAPS LOCK (or off CAPS lock) for the
Rdesktop sessions... for some reason? There are some notes about this in the
reading I have done about Rdesktop... but, it seems that these fixes to CAPS
LOCK problem (random for some reason) have not been included in the Edubuntu
distro's version of Rdesktop? Is Ubuntu using a much older version of
Rdesktop for some special reason?
In our testing of Edubuntu - using either the Ubuntu OpenOffice version or
using LibreOffice RC1 - we have found that LibreOffice RC1 suffers from the
same problem that the default Ubuntu used install of
OpenOffice has... both do not list all the NEEDED list of mail clients under
the File->Wizards->Address Data Sources - that the Sun version of
OpenOffice.org listed. This is a problem, as then we have to remove the
Ubuntu's OpenOffice or LibreOffice in order to use the SUN version because of
this Address Data Sources feature. Using the SUN version of OpenOffice we can
have the Thunderbird email contact list used as a data source for OpenOffice...
This is impossible to do with the Ubuntu OpenOffice version and is also
impossible to do with the LibreOffice RC1 as well.
It seems that the LibreOffice team is still the team that was working on the
other fork of OpenOffice... and they ignored the File-->Wizards-->Address Data
Sources list that OpenOffice used again...(maybe these are Novell folks). With
Ubuntu and Edubuntu using LibreOffice this next time, maybe Ubuntu or Edubuntu
teams can notify the
LibreOffice team of their forgetting to include a very important OpenOffice
feature?
Since the Novell folks on the other fork were putting in some MONO stuff as
well, maybe the Ubuntu folks can tell them to forget the MONO in LibreOffice
too.
Otherwise, we are very pleased with the new Edubuntu. 10.10 (so far).
And will be looking forward to the LibreOffice being part of it in the next
Edubuntu version (if they have fixed the File-->Wizards-->Address Data Sources
lack of a list of various email clients contact lists as datadata sources
omission mistake that they have been making. If not fixed for the next release
of Edubuntu that will use LibreOffice, then we will have to delete LibreOffice
and install the SUN/Oracle OpenOffice instead.
Best regards,
C C Capers
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