[KLUG Members] Re: Linux in high schools.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>Pitch the hard drives and user LTSP,  these machines are perfect for
>>that.  The 500Mb drives will just be slow.... until they crash.
>That's the way I was leaning. I've not read anything about it yet except
>to load up ltsp.org once. I was hoping that ltsp would work with these
>machines cause I know a guy at my users group that has it running in his
>house. I'm sure he's even done a presentation on it. ;-)

Yea,  I've seen his network... pretty cool.  Great guy too.

>>How much of a server do you think you can scratch together?  
>How much do I need? The computer show is in Lansing on Sunday!

The more the merrier.  Multiple users = *RAM*.  I can easily support 4~5 users
on my server at home, and one of those users is me (who habitually opens more
applications than he really needs).  Specs: Dual PII-300, 256Mb RAM, Linksys
10/100 NIC, two IBM ServerRAID III controllers for drives, and an Adaptec 2920
for the CD-ROMs, tape drives, and scanner...  LTSP servers get a big bang for
the buck out of SMP,  you can always setup a uni-server and throw in the second
processor if they decide to cough up a little bit of that cash they don't think
they have.

>>Ewwwwwww,  I've been wanting to play with Novell integration.  From
>>what I've read I wouldn't even qualify this as a problem,  there are even PAM 
>>& NSS modules for this.
>I haven't seriously played with Novell since 4.11. I'm sure that the 5.1
>they are installing this summer is a different beast. They keep saying
>things like "Zenworks is so cool!" 

So I assume they use NDS? (not the old bindery, or whatever it was called).

>and "Bordermanager will keep those kids off all those nasty sites!". right.

It I was one of those kids,  I'd take that as a challange.
 
>>Beats nothing and nowhere.
>Agreed! I think it's amazing just to be given the opportunity!

Yep!

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