Re: [K12OSN] perhaps a radical idea

["Richard K. Ingalls" <ringalls glenwood k12 mo us>]

Quentin Hartman wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:32, Richard K. Ingalls wrote:
>
> > Keep in mind the target audience of K12LTSP.  Who 
> > is the target audience?  For me, I believe the 
> > target audience is comprised of people like me: 
> > Linux newbies and unofficial technology gurus at 
> > our schools (probably also full-time teachers, not 
> > techies).  In other words, Keep It Simple!  As 
> > long as this project is relatively simple, then 
> > newbies can download and install and have a 
> > working classroom lab in a very short time.  All 
> > the tweaking, editing and configuring at the 
> > command line or using editors gets to be 
> > overwhelming to a newbie (I speak from experience 
> > here).
>
>
> That is the target audience, you are correct, and this would not deviate
> from those goals for that audience. I mean one could just post
> instructions to the wiki on how to do all of the customization that is
> now being done automatically. I think that is what you are envisioning,
> but it is not at all what I propose we consider. I propose that we
> consider working towards taking all of that intelligence and
> customization and move it out of the Redhat installer into a more
> distro-neutral system that can be applied to a variety of distros to not
> only add some flexibility to the project, but to hopefully reduce
> long-term management overhead by making it necessary to maintain a hand
> full of packages instead of effectively an entire distribution, and to
> hopefully get more people involved in building it, and to insulate the
> project from outside forces by not putting all of our eggs in one
> basket.
I think I understand your vision a little better 
now.  That sounds great.  If it can be kept simple 
for the newbies like me.  Is this a scenario you 
envision:  newbie hears about Linux and picks a 
distro to download.  newbie hears about K12LTSP 
and downloads the "scripts" you're talking about. 
 Then types "emerge K12ltsp" at a terminal and 
minutes later the two become one?  That sounds cool.


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