Obtaining Linux-ready thin-clients

[Andrew Mathenge]

Jason, I'm interested in the LTSP and have taken a look at Edubuntu since
I'm not familiar with building an LTSP environment and Edubuntu has it
out-of-the box. For the bigger machine that you have with the grade 4/5's
what are the hardware specs for the server and what do you have running on
the clients? Also, do you find that the performance is acceptable to the
students and that they are drawn to using the Ubuntu boxes more than they
would use the Windows machines?

Andrew.


On 11/12/07, Jason <tuxnician at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What I know about Computers for Schools is that if you are an educational
> institution or non-profit one you can order computers at no charge.  I also
> understand that you can request computers to a certain spec.  Even so most
> of the computers they have are more than able to run Ubuntu, etc and
> depending on how many computers I'm sure one can act as a server.
>
> Right now I have two linux ltsp's running at two schools.  One is for
> kindergarten kids for basic games and tux paint etc.  The bigger of the two
> is running about 10 machines in a classroom for students around Grade 4/5
> (if I remember correctly).  They are using the computers mostly for web
> information research and Open Office for writing papers etc.
>
> It's getting hard to support it when the teacher consultant who
> spearheaded these type of projects retired and the current IT dept only
> supports Windows based board purchased computers.  The computers for these
> labs are computers for schools.
>
> I work for the IT dept but I also unofficially support these two ltsp's
> the best that I can.  It's like working uphill and our it manager doesn't
> understand the ltsp concept.
>
> I would like to install Kubuntu as an ltsp for the younger kids' ltsp.
>
> It would be nice if they received some outside attention.
>
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2007 2:50 PM, Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> wrote:
>
> > Richard Seguin wrote:
> > > Well if it's law I know plenty of schools breaking it ;)
> >
> >
> >   Copyright is one of those things where the only thing that is
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> > literate.  This is why it is so important that more regular-folk get
> > politically active in copyright revision as the politicians are largely
> > partying like it's 1899.
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> >  "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
> >   manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
> >   portable media player from my cold dead hands!"
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