[linuxola] evalutaions of the bamenda ltsp project

[Theo Schmidt]

Michel Pauli schrieb:
> hello all,
> 
> i send here evaluations of the project...

Thank you Michel for this stirring account, which will take a while to 
digest and discuss.

In the meantime I can comment only on a technical aspect, as I am now 
working myself on a LTSP client. Setting up the LTSP on Kubuntu was not 
easy and I needed several hours help from Amadeus. As you say, Michel, 
there are problems with hardware compatibility mainly with graphic cards 
and network cards and BIOS, especially for PXE booting, that is booting 
without a boot disc. Some things I still havnt solved.

The Linuxola principle is to set things up in Switzerland so that they 
will work out of the container. This is nice in theory, but I expect at 
times things will not work that way, as your story shows. I think we 
need to discuss fallbacks.

Another problem you pointed out with languages. Many people speak 
English, but it is often really a dialect of English. When two people 
speak different dialects it is difficult to communicate even if it is 
the same base language. I expect it is the same with French. Maybe 
eventually we can at least use software as a translating tool. Already 
now email programs come with spelling checkers which would help a lot 
for written communication.

Theo Schmidt