Roundup of Educational Linux Distributions
Posted Jun 12, 2003 18:31 UTC (Thu) by
haraldt (guest, #961)
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Roundup of Educational Linux Distributions by haraldt
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Roundup of Educational Linux Distributions
Forgot to mention the less unique properties:
- Squid proxy cache and (as of yet unconfigured) support for content filtering. All Skolelinux clients are set up to use this as standard.
- Samba sharing to MSwindows network. (No automatic setup yet)
- Printing is done through CUPS, with support for nearly every printer available. We are working on an improved quota system.
- Webmin setup with support for mass account registration (in LDAP). Don't know if mass registration is included in pr38 proper yet, but available from repository.
- Nagios-based network monitoring. Same note about availability, these setups are fairly new.
- Local email and web server.
- Openoffice.org, Opera web browser with customizable ad window (special for schools) and many other applications.
- And quite likely, other features not popping up in my head not now.
- Among the downsides:
- The KDE 2 graphical subsystem is a bit oldfashioned now. We are waiting for a stabilized KDE 3 from Debian.
- Default 10.0.2.0/23 network is difficult to change. Assumed non-critical so far.
- No setup yet that does not reformat all available disk space automatically. (Just the proper warnings..)
- aic7xxx-based SCSI cards goes crash on hardware autodetecting during install. Have to use parts of the clanky old Debian installer.
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