LtspPersistentHome

Revision 2 as of 2006-10-13 08:35:44

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Summary

Rather than store their home directories up on a server, some users would like to plug in flash media, and run off their memory stick. This currently works on the live CD. We should look at getting this to work for LTSP thin clients as well.

Rationale

Edubuntu with LTSP is enjoying much success in schools, especially in third world countries where the cost of a full function PC plus software plus support may exceed a teacher's monthly or even yearly salary. Universities and colleges in these countries also struggle to fund adequate PC labs for the use of students, which impacts on teaching. Edubuntu with LTSP could make a great contribution in tertiary education, but we need to recognise that many students at colleges, and even some at schools, have some access to computers at home, in libraries, and elsewhere. If they can only access their home directories when they are on school or college premises then they are less able to exploit any other computer resources to do homework, projects, or research.

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Data preservation and migration

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