Distro Question

[Liam Marshall]

I am the computer teacher at a private K-12 school in Winnipeg Manitoba

I have successfully been running K12LTSP server for two years now.

I have a dual zeon 3.06 GHz server, currently with 4 80 Gb SATA drives 
connected to a MegaRaid 4 port raid controller set for raid 0.  I have 
currently 2 Gb of RAM.

Workstations are almost exclusively IBM 300PLs which are thin clients, 
onboard video, sound, nic, etc

They are a little slow when 30+ workstations all load StarOffice 7 at 
the same time, or when they log out.

Overall I have been happy with the K12LTSP distro, but am exploring 
options and am considering Edubuntu instead. 

Questions:

1.   Is Edubuntu as easy to setup as the K12LTSP distro?  I have played 
with other distros in test environments with varying degrees of 
success.  The LTSP portion is always my downfall.  But with K12LTSP it 
works out of the box, with only tweaking required to be up and running 
thin clients

2.   Sound has always been an issue. (on the workstations)  very 
infrequently, the sound cards on the workstations produce sound.  But 
mostly they do not.  How is the sound on the thin clients connecting to 
Edubuntu?

3.    Can anyone convince me/give me good reasons to switch to your 
distro?  I mean, what in your opinion makes you better/different from 
K12LTSP?