[K12OSN] K12LTSP: High School Experiences

[Edward Holcroft]

Larry

We at NetDay South Africa have deployed 50 K12LTSP computer labs into  
the harshest environments Africa has to offer and I cannot praise it  
enough. We have tried a number of thin client solutions and K12LTSP  
is still tops.

It handles near any level of user abuse (mostly through ignorance  
rather than intent), as well as physical environments that are  
challenging to say the least. The only real breakages we've had is  
when there has been power outages and the server has repeatedly gone  
down without being shut down. Even then, the install routine is so  
slick that the teachers have reinstalled the system themselves,  
thanks to Eric's well-written templates of all the key files.

Not sure how helpful this is for where you live, but it's been great  
for us in South Africa. Most of our labs are 20 P1 clients off a P4  
desktop PC as a server, but have also done 40 P1 off a dual Xeon box.  
In both cases we have had an almost impossibly low level of support  
issues, despite heavy usage in hot, dusty conditions.

cheers
ed
On 24 Oct 2005, at 9:55 PM, Larry Mateo wrote:

> I'm requesting that some members of the K12LTSP community please  
> write about positive and negative experiences that have been  
> encountered when running a K12LTSP system at the high school level.
>
> We at the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District have three  
> K12LTSP systems running in middle schools; environments in which  
> the students are either disinterested in or ignorant of the  
> underlying technology, so we have few problems with security,  
> hacking, gaming and like issues that we have encountered with our  
> NetWare systems at the high schools.  We are debating installing  
> K12LTSP systems in high schools, and would like some input on real- 
> world issues we will be facing and their possible solutions.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Larry Mateo
> Network Technician II
> Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District
> larrym at fsusd.k12.ca.us
>
>
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