[K12OSN] Re: K12OSN Digest, Vol 67, Issue 13

[Alan Hodson]

The Middle School where this is going to go has 800+ students, and although I give everybody an account (using Webmin to batch-create the AS400 provided student data) only about a 100 of them will actually use the thin clients, 10-20 at a time.

Anybody knows where the latest K12LTSP 5EL isos are? 

Alan A Hodson MEd.
Instructional Applications Analyst
El Paso Independent School District
oF: 915-887-6871
fX: 915-772-4016
Nxt:915-892-0389
aahodson at episd.org
http://links.episd.org/
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How many accounts will you have on it :-| ... We're still chasing a problem with 1000+ accounts causing login slowdowns that doen't happen in K12LTSP/CentOS 5. I just put K12Linux on a T105 for a 1:1 classroom server, and since I won't have that many accounts, and assuming I can solve the video issue with my IBM R31 Thinkpads, I'm planning to use K12Linux. I did have to use Andrew's SWCursor trick on LTS.CONF to get the mouse working on the HP thin clients however. (Thanks Andrew!) It was also a bit of a pain that I had to manually install OpenOffice (which was included in K12LTSP) but I understand the rationale. 

Daniel 


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From: "Alan Hodson" <aahodson at episd.org> 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:37:17 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [K12OSN] New server suggestions 

Greetings from El Paso, TX 
One of the schools I support is receiving a Dell Power Edge T105 server (2.9GHz Athlon Dual Core 5600B Processor, 2GB DDR2, 250GB SATA Storage, Intel Dual 1GB NIC) and I would like to hear what the experts suggest should be the OS I should install on it. It will serve 10 Symbio-Technologies SYM 1112 diskless thin clients. My inclination is to use a reliable K12ltsp 5.0 install, but I am tempted to use 6.o. Any words of wisdom you may have? 

Alan A Hodson MEd. 
Instructional Applications Analyst 
El Paso Independent School District 
oF: 915-887-6871 
fX: 915-772-4016 
Nxt:915-892-0389 
aahodson at episd.org 
http://links.episd.org/ 
Open Source Proponent 
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I would recommend K12LTSP 5EL.  It works, it has long-term support, it's 
proven, and that's what you want in production.  Fedora is bleeding-edge.

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Alan Hodson wrote:
> Greetings from El Paso, TX
> One of the schools I support is receiving a Dell Power Edge T105 server (2.9GHz Athlon Dual Core 5600B Processor, 2GB DDR2, 250GB SATA Storage, Intel Dual 1GB NIC) and I would like to hear what the experts suggest should be the OS I should install on it. It will serve 10 Symbio-Technologies SYM 1112 diskless thin clients. My inclination is to use a reliable K12ltsp 5.0 install, but I am tempted to use 6.o. Any words of wisdom you may have?
>
> Alan A Hodson MEd.
> Instructional Applications Analyst
> El Paso Independent School District
> oF: 915-887-6871
> fX: 915-772-4016
> Nxt:915-892-0389
> aahodson at episd.org
> http://links.episd.org/
> Open Source Proponent
> http://tinyurl.com/3e4sh8
>
> Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
> but by the moments that take our breath away
> -=o=-
>
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