Planning for summer work/next school year

[Donaldson Jeffrey]

David,

I'm the Technology Manager for a Charter School in Delaware. We've been 
using a Thin Client environment successfully for a number of years now, 
but I've only been in this position for a little less than a year. My 
knowledge of Linux and LTSP is growing with each day. Currently we're 
running 9.10 and plan to upgrade over the summer to 11.04. I hate to 
bother you, but I was wondering if you had any suggestions for software 
and Repositories. Or any useful tips you may have learned along the way. 
I could use all the help I can get and appreciate any advice you're 
willing to give.

If anyone else on the list would be willing to share their experiences 
as well, I'd be very grateful. Some things of particular interest are:

Global Firefox caching to local /tmp instead of user's home directories
SmartBoard setup
Installed Moonlight, but can't get Microsoft Media Pack codecs to 
install (repo issue?)
Getting CUPS to work with local apps (i.e. printing from local firefox, 
is it possible?)
Unity or Gnome UI in 11.04?
Suggestions for VESA mounted thin clients
DRBL\Clonezilla server setup on dual NIC
Software suggestions

I know that's a lot, but I welcome and appreciate any advice!

Thanks in advance,
Jeff Donaldson


David Groos wrote:
> Hi Edubuntistas,
>
> School year here in Minnesota is winding down, I'll take a bit of 
> break, then will be back to preparing the technology for the next 
> school year.  I've had great success with 10.04 with localapps.  Next 
> year I want to move to Fat Clients.  I'm guessing I'm not alone in 
> this.  My BIG QUESTION is, which Edubuntu should I use: 10.04, 10.10 
> or 11.4?  I've seen some passing comments on irc about this and some 
> mention in this list-serve, but nothing comprehensive.  Some specific 
> considerations include:
>
> LTSP 5/Fat Client ease of use/setup
>
> Compatibility with SmartBoard
>
> Effectiveness of Video Codecs
>
> LDAP integration
>
> User management (like, users and groups)
>
> Permissions management (like, Sabayon)
>
> Internet Proxy/Site white/black-listing
>
> Client management (like sch-scripts or iTALC)
>
> Jonathan--wouldn't a comparison table like they do on wikipedia, be 
> useful for something like this?  It would look nice on edubuntu.org 
> <http://edubuntu.org> ;)  Actually, what I'll do is take notes from 
> this discussion and put it on a public googledoc 
> <https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1o4WPsy3PkbaIraVu7sw3nmtpuGSPhBg9-bfJvY2sCB0> 
> since, with its wysiwyg editing it's easy to make and share.
>
> David

-- 
Regards,
Jeff Donaldson
Data Services Manager
Newark Charter School
(302) 369-2001 ext:425
jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us

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