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Topic: Soon to be in production environment, Local School sys. as an intranet server

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virus

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Posted: June 11 2004,14:43

Why change the name? I don't think John is gonna appreciate this alot. In my opinion, the nick 'DSL' should be used for the Edu versions

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Posted: June 11 2004,14:56

This is an interesting thread. In the US, it really depends where you live. I live in the midwestern US and kids are not even allowed to wear concert t-shirts to school. I think the midwest tends to be pretty conservative. Just the number of churches in my small town is staggering!! It is way into double digits ( I think around 60...maybe more) for a town under 13,000 people.

You can't completely change the name. It is too well established now. Many things could be simply edited to DSL in a remaster if John was OK with that. Maybe even offer an alternate DSL boot.img file?

Chris

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Posted: June 11 2004,19:22

Quote (AwPhuch @ June 11 2004,10:38)

NO...its the touchy feely liberals indocrinating our kids that will have a problem with it...

Huh!?! Liberals are all overly concerned about protecting kids from politically incorrect speech, but they don't give a damn abount "damn". It's conservatives, at least the religious ones, who object to swearing.

Ekylypse

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Posted: June 11 2004,21:14

The Word "Damn" being displayed on screen would present a problem in public schools. A child will go home as say his computer says swear words.The parent/guardian of this child would then, withough dubt, bring this to the Board of Edcation/School Board.

Anyways, My reason for posting is this

a_hardwick: One of us or more than one could put together a modified version of DSL to put your Schools name \, for instance on the splash screen, as well as installing certain applications. We could also install synaptic so that all applications would be easily updated. If you want something like this, I'm sure that me and a few other guys here wouldn't mind helping you out ;)

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Posted: June 12 2004,00:20

Ekylypse,

Thank You. I have been toying with the best/most convenient ways to alter DSL to avoid just the sort of nonsense that is likely to ensue were I to somehow expose little Johnny to the word 'Damn'. I could obviously use a different distro, but I am trying to retofit some 6 or 7 year old hardware and DSL runs really well on older stuff. Plus I really like it. Any assistance would be most welcome. I have been given the OK to pilot some boxes for next year and will be installing (at home, I have free time in the summer). As a relative novice, I want to take this opportunity to learn how to do this myself (and document it, so others can improve on it or do it themselves). I have already installed all the software our school districts Technology Plan and Survey seems to require on my PII laptop (OpenOffice, Firefox, Flash---it took one day). I still need to get reliable printing and some lockdown procedures worked out. Thanks again, I know where to find you when I need help.

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