Done with installing Fedora Core 9 on my AMD Sempron machines. It was not as easy as 1-2-3, but much easier than LTSP.
I had a few issues that I faced, like installing the flash plugin, for non-root users, and Firefox working in offline mode every time it started up.
This site, gave an explanation of setting up symlinks to the Flash plugin in the users .mozilla/plugins/ directory. Why isn't this documented on any of Adobe's help or installation README's? Simple and effective.
For the offline mode solution, just uninstall network-manager. :-). yum erase network-manager.
Problem solved.
Next, there is this awfully dumb thing that Fedora has - system level menus for non-root users. Why would anyone want that? I don't even want to imagine what can happen. So, I saw this site and made changes to the menu. I agree that its dumb to find out how to make changes, but I couldn't figure it out. I know. I am dumb.
I have also compiled a list of software that I have installed on the machine. I just did a yum list installed > installed.txt and added software that I added apart from yum to this file. What I am going to do now is just make another file which will have all the educational packages installed in it. This can be a guideline for schools in India which want to adopt open source.
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