[K12OSN] Why Linux?

[David Tisdell]

Hi Jason,
K12LTSP has been a god send for us. I needed to set up
some new labs and had no money to buy traditional
workstations. What I did have was a bunch of old
Pentium I machines lying around unused that were no
longer useful on our network. I converted them to
K12LTSP thin clients and voila. They were running
modern software and getting heavy use. There were some
glitches in the beginning as I had only run Linux as a
server not a workstation. Since that experiment, I
have created minilabs in classrooms with more of those
otherwise outdated machines and teachers are ecstatic.
Kids can do research on the net, write papers, do
projects etc. Good luck and I hope this helps. I never
could have done this with a traditional client server
approach.
Dave
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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:35:43 -0500
From: Jason <tuxnician at execulink.com>
Subject: [K12OSN] Why Linux?
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Hi Everyone.

I've been reading this list for about a week now and
I'm enjoying it 
very much.  It's been a great source of information.

I work for a school board that just quite doesn't
understand the 
benefit 
of Linux especially LTSP.  We did have Linux servers
for authentication 
for Windows machines and proxy etc but they got cold
feet and went with 
MS 2003 Server (not without problems)

We are currently working on getting 2 LTSPs at an
elementary school and 
secondary school (for special education).

I was wondering if anyone has some information,
suggestions, 
presentations etc of the benefits of Linux/LTSP in the
educational 
area. 
  I have some websites bookmarked but I'm looking for
more personal 
experience from a technician, teacher etc point of
view.

I'd like to use it to make a white paper of sorts to
show how well 
Linux/LTSP works and saves money and time.

Thank You for your time.

Jason


		
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