Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Apr 2003 18:28 UTC
There is a Linux distro for any possible need and CollegeLinux is geared towards students and schools! Today, we interview Prof. David Costa of the Robert Kennedy College in Delémont, Switzerland regarding their initiative behind CollegeLinux.
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I like the overall idea of this distro: cushy enough to be usable by newbies, yet not get in the way of those who want to dig in to the guts.
That said, this distro is still rough and raw in some places:
The part of the installer that handles LILO is obtuse, which is something that will probably be fixed in whatever CollegeLinux release is upcoming.
The other annoyance was that the packagers don't seem to understand the point of the .desktop files used by KDE and GNOME. I remember uninstalling some app (IIRC, xmms) and finding that an entry for XMMS was still on the K menu! Turns out that the .desktop file for XMMS, instead of being packaged with XMMS, was packaged in some package called kdelinks, which contained a whole bunch of .desktop files -- totally negating the point of using .desktop files in the first place. When I pointed this out, it appeared that the resident CollegeLinux guru thought that syncing the menu entries with the apps to which they pointed was an RPM thing, and that Slackware-style .tgz files weren't packages. Huh?
These guys aren't idiots, but they are just learning the Linux landscape, and it shows in some of the mistakes that they make.