Via +twitter +I just discovered that Pcwizz have +done a video +review on Youtube of Skolelinux +/ Debian Edu 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.
+ +There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might +have heard wrong). While looking thought the Graphics menu:
+ ++"Basically everything you ever need in a school environment." ++ +
And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:
+ ++"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." ++ +
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. :)
+ +While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment +about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem: + +
+"[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." ++ +
I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and +Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into +one +consistent menu system instead of two incomplete and partly +inconsistent menu systems.
+ +The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe +embedding:
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