[K12OSN] *sigh* FC2 issues

[Andrew]

In the last 2 years I have had a $3500 total budget for starting a 
school within a school. The server for the k12 ltsp stuff is my old dual 
p3 desktop. The IT people chase down old computers to "get them out of 
the system" so even finding terminal parts is a sort of race.
Huck, that's what I guess my budget for ALL materials for the next few 
(3-6) years will be.  Of course, in the meantime IT is pissing away 50k 
annually for licensed "nanny" software that most high school kids can 
subvert with ease. Do I sound bitter? I am trying to sell them on linux. 
Hopefully things will improve.

Huck wrote:

> for about $500 bucks I built out my 'pilot lab' server...
> it was a KT4V motherboard with an AMD 2000+ CPU and 1.5 gigs of RAM..
> a 40 gig ide HD...and an intel 10/100 pro nic for eth0...
> It handled 20 stations FINE with absolutely no problems(after I 
> configured the printer properly =),
> and that was with Gnome...(mind you I had to remove access to many of 
> the bandwidth intensive programs)
> but for Web research and Word Processing...it hummed along quite nicely!
>
> then I got $3500 to build out my "Student Server" and bought dual xeon 
> 3 ghz...4 gig of ram   4-36gig scsi hd's and an intel raid controller
> ...I don't regret spending that much...but if I didn't have it I would 
> merely have built out 2 of the $500 boxes and put them in the ltsp 
> labs...
>
> Also...I likely would have asked individuals if they would sponsor 1 
> piece of hardware...a CPU here...a stick of RAM there...a case over 
> there...
> maybe a Hard Drive or two...and all of a sudden you have a nice nifty 
> server! =)
>
> --Huck
>
> Andrew wrote:
>
>> David, the servers you just described equal my foreseeable budget til 
>> retirement. My IT people spend money like water on questionable 
>> commercial contracts (in my view) but the kind of "what the hell 
>> spend a few grand" attitude sure doesn't apply to me.
>> David Trask wrote:
>>
>>> "Support list for opensource software in schools." 
>>> <k12osn at redhat.com> on
>>> Saturday, August 21, 2004 at 5:54 PM +0000 wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Has anyone tried skolelinux 1.0? I am dling now.  It looks lighter 
>>>> than k12ltsp, which could be useful. The idea of a light core with 
>>>> add-on modules appeals to me. Any look at freeduc for this sort of 
>>>> thing? I am not suggesting any is better, but that there are a few 
>>>> ways to look at an educational thin client/linux  environment.
>>>> Re the hardware issues..... I had failing hardware on my initial 
>>>> install of fc1, on my upgrade to fc2 on my personal box, an 
>>>> nforce2. Non-k12ltsp fedora provided me with these issues...and my 
>>>> by now boring disl.ike of fedora.
>>>>   
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