[K12OSN] K12LTSP demo - any suggestions?

[Rob Owens]

In order to drive home the point of how easy it is to administer, I would do your initial install with few packages.  Then say "oh, you want a word processor on all the computers?" and then install it in a matter of minutes.  Of course somebody who is computer savy will comprehend that this can be done, but even for these people I think actually seeing it being done helps to drive home the point of how simple it is.

-Rob


 --- On Wed 11/10, Bill Bardon < bill at computassist.com > wrote:
From: Bill Bardon [mailto: bill at computassist.com]
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:51:24 -0600
Subject: [K12OSN] K12LTSP demo - any suggestions?

I support a small high school with a 30-computer student lab. They ran<br>SuSE Linux on the individual machines up until last summer, when the<br>powers on high declared it would be switched to Windows. We converted<br>all the machines to W2K over the summer (still running Samba on the<br>Linux server for personal folders and network shares.)<br><br>Today I had a conversation with the teacher responsible for the day-to-<br>day lab operation, and she's had enough of Windows. After fighting<br>with viruses, spyware, and crashing computers, she wants to go back to<br>Linux!<br><br>I'll be demoing K12LTSP this Friday, using my LTSP server which I'll<br>bring on site, and a few of her lab computers booted from floppies.  Do<br>any of you have recommendations for how I should approach the demo? Any<br>experiences or wisdom to share?  Once the comps are booted over the<br>network (which still has a small WOW factor for me, and I know how it<br>works ;-) what then?<br><br>Obviously !
I'll show her OpenOffice and Mozilla, maybe Scribus and some<br>of the Kedu stuff. More than that, I want to emphasize how easy it will<br>be to administer and maintain.  Since I do most things from a console,<br>I'm wondering what GUI program folks use for user maintenance.<br><br>Lots of questions, feel free to take a crack at any of 'em.  I'd love to<br>see Linux back in this lab.<br><br><br>-- <br>Bill Bardon<br>COMPUTASSIST<br>Omaha, Nebraska<br>http://www.computassist.com<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>K12OSN mailing list<br>K12OSN at redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>For more info see <http://www.k12os.org><br>

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