Technical visoion of edubuntu ver1.0

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 24.06.2005, 11:27 -0700 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 07:56:00PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
> > Am Freitag, den 24.06.2005, 10:32 -0700 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> > > What is your rationale for using a live CD to run the server, rather than
> > > installing it?
> > its easier to customize and you can just run it right away for testing,
> > i'm very much convinced you will have a nice "AHA" effect with this in
> > your audience... especially if you can just click the install icon and
> > have the same setup you just tested on your harddisk afterwards ;)
> 
> I don't think this is going to be workable.  Performance will be poor,
> specialized configuration will be required in order to store user data on
> the hard drive, all configuration (including user accounts and passwords)
> will be lost when the system is rebooted, etc.  A server needs to be a
> stable, permanent entity.
i dont think anybody will actually use it for work and i didnt intend it
to be a environment for day to day work, but for testing and demo with a
option to install it. but i'm still pretty sure such a CD is uniqe and
would be very impressive even if unperformant for normal work.

> > > This would be very useful of course, but is not a part of the initial scope
> > > for the 5.10 release of Edubuntu.  We already have quite some ground to
> > > cover, and we need to choose our battles carefully, so this should probably
> > > be a post-Breezy feature.
> > yes, but teachertool would need a nearly full rewrite anyway to function
> > with the new infrastructure, its small enough to just do a quick rewrite
> > in pygtk (i'm willing to make it ... even in my spare time if necessary)
> > which will function as a base for the _real_ tool later (i think i
> > already mentioned it in the spec)
> 
> You have quite a lot of work to do for Breezy already; your name is listed
> for one top priority and five high priorities.  We must be very specific
> about the goals for Edubuntu 5.10 in order to deliver it in concert with the
> rest of Ubuntu 5.10.
hmm, quite right....

ciao	
	oli
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