blog/data/2013-03-17-skolelinux-6-youtube.txt

   1 Title: Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz
   2 Tags: english, debian edu, video
   3 Date: 2013-03-17 10:30
   4
   5 <p>Via
   6 <a href="https://twitter.com/pcwizz/status/313044373262716930">twitter</a>
   7 I just discovered that <a href="http://pcwizz.net/">Pcwizz</a> have
   8 done a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzTZ61Pcuc">video
   9 review</a> on Youtube of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux
  10 / Debian Edu</a> version 6.  He installed the standalone profile and
  11 the video show a walk-through of of the menu content, demonstration of
  12 a few programs and his view of our distribution.</p>
  13
  14 <p>There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might
  15 have heard wrong).  While looking thought the Graphics menu:</p>
  16
  17 <blockquote>
  18 "Basically everything you ever need in a school environment."
  19 </blockquote>
  20
  21 <p>And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:</p>
  22
  23 <blockquote>
  24 "So, yeah, a bit bloated.  It kept all the Debian stuff in there, just
  25 to keep it nice and GNU.  So, I do not want to go on about it, but
  26 lets give it 7 out of 10.  I am not going to use it.  That is because
  27 I am not deploying a school network.  There may be some mythical
  28 feature to help you deploy Skolelinux on a school network."
  29 </blockquote>
  30
  31 <p>To bad he did not test the server profile, and discovered the PXE
  32 installation option.  It make it possible to install only the main
  33 server from CD, and the rest of the machines via the net, and might be
  34 considered the mythical feature he talk about. :)</p>
  35
  36 <p>While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment
  37 about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem:
  38
  39 <blockquote>
  40 "[The K menu] have a special Debian section for software that no-one
  41 is going to look at, because it contain lots of junky stuff that you
  42 actually don't need in the education distribution, but have just been
  43 included because it isn't stripped out for some reason."
  44 </blockquote>
  45
  46 <p>I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and
  47 Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into
  48 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries">one
  49 consistent menu system</a> instead of two incomplete and partly
  50 inconsistent menu systems.</p>
  51
  52 <p>The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe
  53 embedding:</p>
  54
  55 <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wPzTZ61Pcuc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>