Skolelinux Project Releases Version 1.0

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 20, 2004 @09:38AM from the free-as-in-right-on dept.

jakobgrimstveit writes "After about three years of hard work, Skolelinux (with its own cute Tux-with-bag-mascot) 1.0 is released to the public. The distribution was started as a reaction to how much the Norwegian schools and the government relied on systems using closed source. Skolelinux is meant to be an easy way to set up a large and secure network of LTSP thin clients (normally PXE boot) for regular users. The Skolelinux-organization won the Norwegian Free Software Prize in 2002. The distribution is based in Debian GNU/Linux, and is also being used and evaluated [1] [2] several places in Africa due to its low demands for the client PC. Kudos to the developers and good luck!"

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Why so many distros? by the_y_man84 · 2004-06-20 10:05 · Score: 3, Insightful

I personally like linux alot. But why make so many distros? Doesnt that just fragment the linux community itself more? Doesnt it also it harder to keep things up to date?
K12Linux.org by dvanatta · 2004-06-20 10:29 · Score: 3, Insightful

K12Linux.org is the Fedora distribution with LTSP already configured. I know many schools in the United States are using it successfully.
Re:Great! by Orgazmus · 2004-06-20 10:46 · Score: 4, Insightful

From my experience, debian unstable is far more stable than fedora ;)

AlexB:
What would it take to maintain your own packages?

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