[K12OSN] K12LTSP: High School Experiences

[rmcdaniel at indata.us]

I have installed 40 thin clients in our high school.  30 went into a lab
and the other 10 are in the library.  The students have picked up
OpenOffice and Firefox without a hitch.  They seem to be much more
adaptive than our teachers.  We are using HP 9510 thin clients running
off of an HP ML350 Dual Xeon server with 4GB mem.  Our network is 100Mb
switched and the speed is great.  The ease of management has been great,
no more reloads.  Just make sure that you are not using hubs.  They
don't work very well in a thin client environment.  We are using icewm,
thanks to all for the recommendation.



Ronald R. McDaniel
Conecuh County Schools
(251) 578-7073 x26
(251) 230-0658 cell
rmcdaniel at indata.us


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [K12OSN] K12LTSP: High School Experiences
> From: "Larry Mateo" <LarryM at fsusd.k12.ca.us>
> Date: Mon, October 24, 2005 2:55 pm
> To: <k12osn at redhat.com>
> 
> 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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