[HLUG] Tuxedu Prototypes Finished!

[Julian Robbins]

On 12 September 2011 10:02, Tony Sales <tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk> wrote:

> Isos are also now available from here:
> http://vinux.org.uk/tuxedu/downloads/
>

Downloading now for a look. My daughter liked playing with a couple of the
games on an earlier version

Julian


> ________________________________________
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [
> herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] on behalf of Tony Sales [
> tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk]
> Sent: 12 September 2011 09:08
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Tuxedu Prototypes Finished!
>
> You can get the new isos from here: http://tuxedu.org.uk/downloads/ -
> please check the md5sum before burning/testing. I will update the website
> later.
>
> Tony.
> ________________________________________
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [
> herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] on behalf of Tony Sales [
> tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk]
> Sent: 11 September 2011 19:17
> To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [HLUG] Tuxedu Prototypes Finished!
>
> I have just finished re-mastering and testing two Tuxedu prototypes for
> testing and distribution at SFD and the Schools projects. They will not be
> available for download until tomorrow morning when I get to work. I will
> notify everyone as soon as they are available.
>
> I have made a Debian Live CD version which is completely locked down as
> planned - I managed to fit on Scratch (with no sound), Stopmotion and the
> extra Marble map as requested by removing jfractionlab (sorry if you wrote
> the guide) and I also installed epdfview and a pdf copy of the user guide -
> launched from a desktop icon. I was able to boot from the live CD and from a
> USB pendrive (using unetbootin and/or 'dd' as it is a hybrid iso). I have
> set up a usb pendrive using unetbootin and gparted with two partitions one
> 720MB for the iso and the remaining 3.2GB as a storage area, which can be
> mounted to save files etc. (minor bug - I have also noticed that when you
> shutdown the system the computer needs to be manually turned off.)
>
> I have also made a Lubuntu Installable version which isn't locked down at
> all with the same applications and desktop design etc. This is just under
> 900MB so it will fit on a 1GB pendrive -obviously this version can be
> installed to a hard drive, or a USB drive with persistent storage. The audio
> on scratch works on this version because pulseaudio is installed. This
> version also has the standard applications that comes with Lubuntu such as
> Abiword and Gnumeric etc.
>
> In some ways the Lubuntu version is preferable, although I don't think I
> could get it to fit on a CD, and it is very difficult to lock down.
>
> I will post a message tomorrow with the download links  - which will also
> be at http://tuxedu.org.uk/ - but it may take me a while to update the
> webpage etc.
>
> Tony.
>
>
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