Re: [seul-edu] Distro Dementia

[Chris Hobbs <chobbs@silvervalley.k12.ca.us>]

And in fact the guys at http://www.k12ltsp.org have done just that - 
taken a stock RedHat distro and bashed in all of the software required 
to make it a Linux Terminal Server, and placed several apps on it that 
are useful for education - it's not complete on this front, but it 
certainly proves that the concept of building onto an existing distro is 
doable.

Richard Smedley wrote:

>Hmm, surely you just take a GPLed distro, add in the edu packages and distribute
>disks of the whole lot - Debian, Red Hat & Co have all taken care of the
>installation routines.
>However just distributing the applications means making too many assumptions
>about the installation someone has - even assuming that they already have a
>GNU/Linux distribution.
>

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