[K12OSN] Maine and Laptops

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 20:18, David Trask wrote:

> An inexpensive yet functional PC laptop running a locally (statewide)
> rolled version of Knoppix loaded on to a read-only partition.  Then we'd
> have a writable partition that would be the students persistent home
> directory and a place to store local settings such as browser prefs and
> printers.

You could try something like
http://www.atconsultancy.nl/atmission/index.html
which layers copy-on-write into a file over an otherwise
read-only live CD.  It should work faster with the base as a
compressed image on the hard drive. 

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com