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[Luis M]

On 4/13/06, Dean Montgomery <dmonty at sd73.bc.ca> wrote:
> > umm... you are not using splashy from our svn repository right?
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main

That's good. I'll try to put only known good packages there then...
That repository is meant for developers testing splashy.

>
> I only took the /etc/init.d/splashy-init from cvs because it worked better.  I
> did not have the build environment configured on the diskless client.
>
> In our school district we have found that it is easiest to let the package
> maintainers look after the software.   There are ~60 schools.  Every time we
> "hack" a package the more maintenance we create for ourselves.  Our goal is
> to provide a full-featured desktop for the students with minimal changes as
> possible.  This will allow for easy upgrades in the future.
>
> Splashy is going onto our latest school image.  The first high school to see
> it will be September 2006.  If the new image is successful then we will start
> updating all the schools.
>
> --
> Dean Montgomery
> Network Support Tech./Programmer
> School District #73
>


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