OpenSUSE Li-F-E vs. Edubuntu vs. Ubuntu

“As I noted in my post over on Between the Lines (”Why
doesn’t IBM just buy Novell already?”), I’ve been
testing OpenSUSE’s Linux for Education Project and Ubuntu
10.04 server beta 1. I have a couple of problems that I was hoping
they could solve: 1) a thin client environment that would allow me
to redeploy several stacks of colored iMacs; 2) an easy Moodle
setup that I could not only use for some pilots but share with
colleagues looking to deploy their first LMS; and 3) determine if
Ubuntu really should reign among Linux distros in education (and
elsewhere).

“Why use the early beta of Ubuntu Server? I wanted to evaluate
whether it was as cool as the desktop version of 10.04 and I was
working in a non-production environment, so why not? Today I did
actually leave it behind and began using 9.10 to solve some
problems with LTSP and Moodle, by the way, but overall, it’s
quite solid for the first beta.”

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