Looking for Ubuntu Mentor

[frodo_9fin]

@Miljet what does LTS mean?

@mcoleman44 most of my kids don't have pc access at home, so that will not be much of a problem. in addition their homework will not be computer related.

@tommynz1975 thanks dude.

@Miljet Do you know when 10.04 will be available? Do you think it will be stable? Will they have a server version?

thanks everyone for your valuable input!

[Miljet]

LTS stands for Long Term Service. It means that the version will be supported for three years rather than the normal 18 months (five years for the server edition). It means that once you get it set up like you want, you don't have to worry about upgradeing for a longer time.

10.04 will be available next month. The 10 indicates the year, 2010. The 04 indicates the month of the release, 04 = April. Every new version has both a desktop as well as a server edition. It will be at least as stable as any other new operating system and better than most.

[tommynz1975]

@tommynz1975 thanks dude.

@Miljet Do you know when 10.04 will be available? Do you think it will be stable? Will they have a server version?

thanks everyone for your valuable input!

Your most welcome, The great thing about this forums is you do not need to know everything and everyone would seam to know a little about something..

Ubuntu Forums has been a valuable resource. Also on my link
http://www.linux-books.us/ Some books maybe out of date but others will still have much much knowledge to be gleamed.

Don't feed the trolls

[Spiritof76]

OOO is OpenOffice or more correctly OpenOffice.org. I work with Highschool seniors a bit and while they generally have a pretty good understanding of Excel, they don't always have a good understanding of the math capabilities that a spreadsheet offers. Introducing them to another Office Suite and also showing the capability of crunching numbers and graphing them out could be beneficial to these kids.

I sure wish a computer and Office Suites when I was going to school...

I agree with the LTS sentiment expressed on 10.4 not only does it get a longer support life, LTS distributions tend to be the most stable, although 9.10 is awfully stable also.

[mikewhatever]

Has anyone suggested iTalc yet?
http://italc.sourceforge.net/screens..._1.jpg&label=3
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/iTalc
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyClassroomServer

You really need someone with first hand experience.
This looks like a good place -> http://www.classroom20.com/group/ubuntu.

[k3lt01]

LTS stands for Long Term Service.

Support not Service.

Frodo, if you can wait a couple of weeks, end of April I think actually, Lucid (10.04) will be available.

As for a mentor it is obvious you have plenty of offers for support but may I recommend you use the forums in the first instance. That way others who will follow you in this adventure will be able to read your threads and learn without going through the exact same process that you did.

May I also suggest you read this, this, this, and this. Also get in touch with your local LoCo

There are many avenues you can take but it is important that you read up and work out the best way for you.

Remember 1 last thing, "Pay it forward".

[frodo_9fin]

@mikewhatever - ITALC looks like it has great potential. Thank you so much for the valuable links. The classroom server looks like it uses thin clients. I was wondering if I have 15 to 20 computers running software on the server at once, will that slow things down too much. As an example: 16 kids running a data collection software like vernier labs software, open office for graphing and word processing, and perhaps a phet simulator, and a web browser. would a small server be able to handle all that activity?

@k3lt01 - i checked out the literature you posted and bookmarked it all and i have begun to read. i thank you for all that information. i am wondering what you mean by use the forums. i think you are suggesting using a different forum to post all this information. i have looked through some of the other forums and i have not found like this where a complete novice has it in his crazy head to get a classroom lan together with a server. i am still looking. i have been using the forums to figure out a lot of interesting stuff. a couple days ago i got microsoft office working using wine. that was very cool and helpful. the forums are pretty amazing. i am no trying to get vampire the masquerade redemption working but not having any luck yet. i will keep trying though.

[k3lt01]

i am wondering what you mean by use the forums.

I mean instead of using a handful of people as mentors and contacting them away from this forum (the one we are communicating on right now: ubuntuforums.org) it would be nice if you post your questions on this forum and let everyone help you.

[frodo_9fin]

@k3lt01 - ahhh! i get it. that sounds like a great idea. i shall do that. thanks for explaining that for me. sometimes i can't see the obvious...well actually much of the time that is true

thanks

[k3lt01]

Mate, I'm a teacher (Social Sciences) as well, I know what you mean about not seeing the obvious. One question though, why is it always Science and Maths teachers who suffer with this condition more than others? Kidding.