[K12OSN] Why Linux?

[Richard K. Ingalls]

David Tisdell wrote:

>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otherwise outdated machines and teachers are ecstatic.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
>  
>

almost the exact same story for me & my school too

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RICHARD K. INGALLS
Director of Information Technology
Glenwood R-8 School District
West Plains, MO

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