<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> Would using WINE be the same as “Ericom software – a Citrix alternative -- enabled the terminals to run the district's existing and irreplaceable Microsoft Windows educational applications, including Type to Learn, Reading Counts and Kid Pix.” as stated in the article? We have those programs and I was planning on running them using WINE, but I was trying to figure out what they used.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Levi Kemp<o:p></o:p> Technology Specialist<o:p></o:p> Bolivar R-I <u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">School District</u1:place></st1:place><o:p></o:p> 417-328-8943<o:p></o:p> <a href="mailto:lnkemp@bolivar.k12.mo.us">lnkemp@bolivar.k12.mo.us</a><o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: k12osn-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of pogson Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 8:37 AM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">k12osn@redhat.com</st1:PersonName> Subject: [K12OSN] OT:Microsoft Windows ousted at <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State> school district<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> The story is pretty sparse. It looks to me that they had a couple of issues: User permissions for files and thin clients. I do not understand the comment that they had to add one user at a time. That is the Windows way. In Linux, one would use scripts and it would take minutes. Perhaps they had to get the info out of AD first... That makes sense if they wanted to keep users connected to their data. I had the privilege of creating a system with no user history. I created staff accounts from a list of usernames and created student accounts using APG (Automatic Password Generator). I had teachers associate student names with account userids. They could have solved their problems by grouping staff, teachers, students. Perhaps they had staff that moved between buildings... I have never seen a Linux system that would not work with thin clients. Use LTSP to boot the thin clients and an X connection to whatever server you run. I guess they got locked into Suse and their way of doing things and it did not fit their setup. That is the problem with migration. You try to do the same old thing with the new system when it is unnatural. I say, make a clean break with the old system, automate account generation and migrate the data. If Windows will not produce clean text files with user information, scan the system with a Linux live CD or whatever to harvest the information. If file directories match usernames, and teachers and students are segragated it shoud be doable. Robert Pogson On Thu, 2007-01-03 at 20:32 -0500, k12osn-request@redhat.com wrote: <o:p></o:p> <tt>From: Sergio Chaves <<a href="mailto:sergio@turbocorp.com">sergio@turbocorp.com</a>></tt> <tt>Subject: [K12OSN] OT:Microsoft Windows ousted at <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State> school</tt> <tt> district</tt> <tt>To: <a href="mailto:k12osn@redhat.com">k12osn@redhat.com</a></tt> <tt>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:200703011316.15838.sergio@turbocorp.com">200703011316.15838.sergio@turbocorp.com</a>></tt> <tt>Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</tt> <tt>It would be better if it was LTSP but still a nice headline to read on a rainy </tt> <tt>morning here in ATL.</tt> <tt><a href="http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.htm">http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.htm</a></tt> <o:p></o:p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'> <tr> <td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>A problem is an opportunity.<o:p></o:p></pre></td> </tr> </table> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>