School using Linux

[Don Keeler - Lumens]

Our company provides a complete ready to use solution with Gentoo for
speed and LTSP ready for virtual desktops.  System also comes with our
desktop management software and user management utilities we have
developed.  Plug the box in and off you go.  E-Prom boot NICs as well.

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 15:49, Becker, Rob wrote:

> Tell your friend to look into ltsp.org.  This is the project that
> k12ltsp is based on.  It works well on most distributions.  If you are
> needing some questions answered, feel free to give me a shout.  I don't
> have a large LTSP network, but I have set a small one up for testing.
> As far as the floppy option that others have mentioned, for testing, it
> works great, for production, I would look into netbooting.  The goal in
> a thin client network is reliable computing and centralized management
> as well as low cost.  Using thin clients with the least number of moving
> parts will most likely help you reap all of these benefits.
> Rob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Schmidt [mailto:karl at xtronics.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:48 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: School using Linux
>
>
> One of my customers was asking about burning an eprom for a net card - I
>
> asked him what he was up to and it turns out he is setting computers up
> to boot off the net for an Oregon school system.
>
> Just to get current with M$ for the current year was going to cost over
> $20,000 so he is setting up a bunch of thin clients using this:
>
> http://k12ltsp.org/
>
> He says when everyone starts up at the same time the server boggs down a
>
> bunch but once everyone is up he says it works fine. He is getting great
>
> feedback from the administration.
>
> He says it is based on Redhat and the latest is on the fedora core - He
> wished it was based on debian.

Don P. Keeler
Chief Technology Officer
Lumen Software

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