[K12OSN] K12LTSP demo - any suggestions?

[Bill Bardon]

I support a small high school with a 30-computer student lab. They ran
SuSE Linux on the individual machines up until last summer, when the
powers on high declared it would be switched to Windows. We converted
all the machines to W2K over the summer (still running Samba on the
Linux server for personal folders and network shares.)

Today I had a conversation with the teacher responsible for the day-to-
day lab operation, and she's had enough of Windows. After fighting
with viruses, spyware, and crashing computers, she wants to go back to
Linux!

I'll be demoing K12LTSP this Friday, using my LTSP server which I'll
bring on site, and a few of her lab computers booted from floppies.  Do
any of you have recommendations for how I should approach the demo? Any
experiences or wisdom to share?  Once the comps are booted over the
network (which still has a small WOW factor for me, and I know how it
works ;-) what then?

Obviously I'll show her OpenOffice and Mozilla, maybe Scribus and some
of the Kedu stuff. More than that, I want to emphasize how easy it will
be to administer and maintain.  Since I do most things from a console,
I'm wondering what GUI program folks use for user maintenance.

Lots of questions, feel free to take a crack at any of 'em.  I'd love to
see Linux back in this lab.


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Bill Bardon
COMPUTASSIST
Omaha, Nebraska
http://www.computassist.com