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Monday 15 May 2006 18:34, Jeff Eklund wrote:
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Hi!
I am trying to introduce GNU/Linux and KDE into my school and I
have started showing some of the science teachers some of the
science applications that KDE offer, namely Kstars and Kalzium.
They were mighty impressed but not really comfortable with the
idea of not running Windows. I said I'd try to look for a live
distro which they could test out and evaluate some of the
applications.
So, I'm now looking for a live distro with KDE, focused around
science, meaning having alot of up-to-date science packages
preinstalled. I want my teachers to be abe to just pop that CD
into one of their computers and try the software out or
possibly even use it in class.

So, has anyone got any ideas for me? I wasn't able to find
anything useful when searching the net.
Thanks!

Jeff

Slax (www.slax.org). It doesn't have the kde-edu stuff by default,
but it is very easy to add modules to slax and there is a module
for kde-edu in the modules section. The only disadvantage: It's
version 3.4.2, but that should be recent enough I think.

HTH
Joerg

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Tuesday 16 May 2006 04:34, Jeff Eklund wrote:
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Hi!
I am trying to introduce GNU/Linux and KDE into my school and I have
started showing some of the science teachers some of the science
applications that KDE offer, namely Kstars and Kalzium. They were mighty
impressed but not really comfortable with the idea of not running Windows.
I said I'd try to look for a live distro which they could test out and
evaluate some of the applications.
So, I'm now looking for a live distro with KDE, focused around science,
meaning having alot of up-to-date science packages preinstalled. I want my
teachers to be abe to just pop that CD into one of their computers and try
the software out or possibly even use it in class.

So, has anyone got any ideas for me? I wasn't able to find anything useful
when searching the net.
Thanks!

Jeff

Not overtly science-specific, but PCLS (http://www.pclinuxos.com) comes with
kdeedu pre-installed and has a very easy to use set of re-mastering scripts
you could try. Note v0.92 comes with KDE 3.4 and no , but you can
do a disk install, upgrade to KDE 3.5.2 from the repository, and then
remaster the liveCD. you could try the new 0.93 MiniMe version which is a
bare bones KDE 3.5.2 install that you then add whatever you want to before
re-mastering the liveCD. There's a number of specialist sub-distros based on
this such as SuperGamer, AS (Archaeology/GIS) and Kids.

could could try looking at distrowatch and use their search which has
categories like liveCD or Scientific ().

John.

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