[kde-edu]: Edubuntu & kde-edu

[jos poortvliet]

Op Sunday 20 May 2007, schreef Bhikkhu Mettavihari:
> > Well, i'm a "technical person", i usually am not good trying to "sell"
> > things to people when politics is part of the equation. Probably you are
> > right and we should work with them and i should be better with the mouth
> > closed.
>
> This list is for saying what we feel and talk it out so your statement
> is quite OK.
> However I do not know if there is not some form of misunderstanding on this
> list
>
> As I said earlier I install Edubuntu in Schools here in Sri Lanka.
> I found that in the latest installation edubuntu 7.4 that when I
> booted the CD all the wanted packages were on the Live CD.
> But when the install completed the Education packages where not there.
> I did an apt-get install edu* and I got all that I wanted and It works
> quite well.
> I also did
> apt-get install kde-desktop
> apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
> And now all the packages are working in my Edubuntu machine.
>
> From this I presume that Ubuntu is having all the education packages
> in their repositories and we do not really have to worry much about it
> here, but only get on with the work.

Point is that they say they're trying to include all relevant EDU apps, but 
they don't want to include KDE-edu apps on the cd because (apparently) they 
think KDE is evil.

> May I take this opportunity to thank all the developers who are doing
> a great job for our students around the world.
>
> regards
> Mettavihari



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Alles wat ik doe denk en zeg is gebaseerd op het wereldbeeld wat ik nu heb. 
Ik ben niet verantwoordelijk voor wijzigingen van de wereld, of het beeld wat 
ik daarvan heb, noch voor de daaruit voortvloeiende gedragingen van mezelf. 
Alles wat ik zeg is aardig bedoeld, tenzij expliciet vermeld.

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