Fw: Ubuntu for School (epic93dude at gmail.com)

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Joseph Hartman <jlhartman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, unfortunately for 200 self-standing computers the cost would be $12,000
>> per year.
>
> Whoah. I would not suggest Landscape on all your desktops. I don't
> think that's what it's for.

I have to agree with not jumping on the Landscape bandwagon, it may
make some administrative things easier (I've never used it), but there
are certainly ways to make it happen with free and open source
alternatives.

The Google Doc that we maintain for our lab deployments at Partimus
can be found here:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfzcxcjr_2chc5cqcg

In a fully-functioning deployment we stick with an LTS version
(currently 8.04, but we're looking into the 10.04 upgrade now),
install via PXE boot with our custom images which include LDAP support
for authentication and NFS shares for /home directories. Upgrades are
simply trusted to work (since we stick with LTS) and are completed
regularly with a script. It's worked very well.

Specific questions are welcome, but there certainly are schools doing
this right now with a high level of success, and in our case - very
minimal investment.

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Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2
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