Edubuntu Feisty

[Scott Ledyard]

So what I hear you saying is that the low cost and ease of use are
important.

I remember when we were trying to setup a trial lab, we tried to set up the
fastest machine as the server and the fastest network switch. On the day of
our trial, neither the fast server nor the switch worked, so we had to fall
back to an older P4 PC with 512MB or RAM as the server and only a 100MB
network. We were amazed that we were able to run 8 thin clients off of it
and the performance was excellent. We never could get the CPU utilization or
memory past 75%.

This for us was perhaps the most impressive part. That even an old server
with old thin clients functioned well.  This might be good news for the
schools in your neighborhood.

BTW, in my classroom my (headless) LTSP server and four thin clients are
booted and logged in each day by a 10 year old. The only problems she seems
to run into are when she tries to get the XP machines going!

I wish you luck in your worthy project.

Scott


On 3/28/07, Cedric Janssens <decirc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your interest.
>
> What I want to produce as demo is based on the viability, workability
> of a economical project.
> I'm living in a "low revenue" area in Belgium and I'd like to propose
> this solution for schools in the neighborhood.
> For this I want to offer a full system (servers and if needed clients
> and network and maintenance and installation) to my son's school.
> After they will become a demo school for other one.
>
> But even if it's free for the first school, there is a cost for them.
>
> Investment in term of time to learn the new system, investment in term
> of securisation of the room, etc...
>
> So I need first to convince them.
>
> To do this, I will first create a pseudo classroom at my office with 5
> clients and a server.
>
> This solution of pseudo classroom will also be used to demonstrate to
> potential sponsors what they can subside to local schools.
>
> Big project, could end in the trashcan, but we have a lot of will :-)
>
> Regards
> Cedric
>
> 2007/3/28, Scott Ledyard <scott at redboot.biz>:
> > Cedric,
> > > I'm planning to deploy a demonstration classroom of Edubuntu server
> > > with thin client.
> > >
> >
> > Having followed this thread for a bit, I am interested in the context
> since
> > I've seen some pretty crazy things become of demos. I'd like to know
> what
> > would make for a *great* Edubuntu / LTSP demo. Maybe others can chip in
> from
> > their successes / failures like Uwe did.
> >
> > Another thing that Uwe alludes to to predict expectations. His audience
> had
> > positive responses that weren't ones I would have considered. (BTW, I'll
> > have to try that unplug / replug trick!)
> >
> > I'm wondering what is it that you want to demonstrate? Is this
> demonstration
> > to decision makers and, if so, what are they looking for? Speed?
> > Compatibility with MS systems? Student productivity? Security? Do they
> even
> > care if it's Linux?
> >
> > Hope I'm not prying, but I think this would be useful for me (and
> others?)
> > in the future.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> >
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