X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/39299b7b3899ac51d732054c96e409b5a8b04be2..186743f2e77ac0222745f9277b41e5dc26b49fb4:/blog/archive/2013/03/03.rss?ds=inline diff --git a/blog/archive/2013/03/03.rss b/blog/archive/2013/03/03.rss index 707b6781be..ce61c577f6 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2013/03/03.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2013/03/03.rss @@ -6,6 +6,65 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html + Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:30:00 +0100 + <p>Via +<a href="https://twitter.com/pcwizz/status/313044373262716930">twitter</a> +I just discovered that <a href="http://pcwizz.net/">Pcwizz</a> have +done a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzTZ61Pcuc">video +review</a> on Youtube of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/">Skolelinux +/ Debian Edu</a> version 6. He installed the standalone profile and +the video show a walk-through of of the menu content, demonstration of +a few programs and his view of our distribution.</p> + +<p>There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might +have heard wrong). While looking thought the Graphics menu:</p> + +<blockquote> +"Basically everything you ever need in a school environment." +</blockquote> + +<p>And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:</p> + +<blockquote> +"So, yeah, a bit bloated. It kept all the Debian stuff in there, just +to keep it nice and GNU. So, I do not want to go on about it, but +lets give it 7 out of 10. I am not going to use it. That is because +I am not deploying a school network. There may be some mythical +feature to help you deploy Skolelinux on a school network." +</blockquote> + +<p>To bad he did not test the server profile, and discovered the PXE +installation option. It make it possible to install only the main +server from CD, and the rest of the machines via the net, and might be +considered the mythical feature he talk about. :)</p> + +<p>While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment +about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem: + +<blockquote> +"[The K menu] have a special Debian section for software that no-one +is going to look at, because it contain lots of junky stuff that you +actually don't need in the education distribution, but have just been +included because it isn't stripped out for some reason." +</blockquote> + +<p>I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and +Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into +<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries">one +consistent menu system</a> instead of two incomplete and partly +inconsistent menu systems.</p> + +<p>The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe +embedding:</p> + +<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wPzTZ61Pcuc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> + + + Til frikanalens støttespillere - fra styret i Frikanalen http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Til_frikanalens_st_ttespillere___fra_styret_i_Frikanalen.html