<div>I was told when I asked the folks at Renaissance Learning that the Web Server had to be Win2003 and could not be Linux. I would make sure and do some testing before hand. I believe that Renaissance Place is heavy Microsoft code and won't play on anything other than IIS. When I found that out, I was very disappointed. So much for forward thinkers. Good luck. Let me know if you do some testing. We have 6 schools in our district and I was considering implementing RP district wide.</div> <div> </div> <div>Ron </div> Ronald R. McDaniel Conecuh County Schools (251) 578-7073 x26 (251) 230-0658 cell <A href="mailto:rmcdaniel@indata.us">rmcdaniel@indata.us</A> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [K12OSN] Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Place From: Brad Johnson <bjohnson@independence.k12.ia.us> Date: Tue, September 06, 2005 6:57 pm To: k12osn@redhat.com Greetings everyone, Let me start off by saying that I've followed this list for the better part of a year without ever posting anything, so I'm a first-timer. I am the technology director for a 5 school district with approximately 1500 students in Iowa. With our ever-shrinking budget, I have been pushing for Linux on the desktop for some time. My superintendent loves the idea, and is totally for LTSP throughout the district. Naturally, we have some school board and staff members that are not entirely receptive to the idea....you know the drill....we need Microsoft, etc. At any rate, this summer I purchased the materials to build a dual processing opteron server with 4 gigs of memory. When I told the superintendent about the purchase and the cost(roughly $1600 from Newegg.com) he really fell in love with the idea. Last week, I finally talked a teacher into allowing some of her old junkers to be "upgraded" to LTSP thin clients, as well as a computer in our high school media center, and one additional client in my office. The immediate reaction is very positive--teacher and other staff members are very impressed with the speed of the system! I would eventually like to put about 20 clients on this system to see how the system reacts under a pretty full load. Can any of you comment on a fully loaded (20-25 clients) running on a dual opteron, 4 gig, WD Raptor hard drive setup? Now on to my real question. Are any of you using the web-based version of Accelerated Reader(Renaissance Place) with LTSP or Linux? If so, how is it working for you? The people at Renaissance have assured me that this will indeed work, but can't give me the names of any districts that are currently using LTSP with RP. When I go to RP website, I am able to use their sample quizzes within Firefox with no problem, using the flash plugin. I am going to try to convice RP to let my district test/pilot RP with LTSP/Linux so I can be assured that I'm not going to pay for a product that won't work. Any comments/advice welcome. Regards, Brad Johnson _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org> </BLOCKQUOTE>