Re: [OS:N:] Open source in Education - with senior citizens

[Brandon Dorman <brandonfpu yahoo com>]

The fastest I've got donated is a Pentium II 266 with 64 megs of ram.  i
could always take some from the other computers for more ram or buy some
more (i have money for that) but the cpu is still a problem.  my own
computer is a PIII 450 with 160 megs of ram.  I will probably retire it
this summer, but being a student at a private school, money is tight. 
Plus I physically don't have much room for a server that isn't also used
as a terminal.
	For right now I think I'll stick with every computer being it's own
terminal, I'll have to network them though too.  Most have ethernet
cards.  To make a private lan, umm, would just connecting them all to a
hub work?

-Brandon

On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:43, Peter Billson wrote:
> Brandon,
>    You don't need a real wiz-bang server to get started. I run LTSP for a library with 7 workstations on nothing more then an old desktop PII 450 with 370Mb ram. Provides Web surfing and Word Processing to the public and works fine.
> 
>    There is also a thing in LTSP for running applications locally (aka on the workstation), which will reduce the load on the server.
> 
> Pete
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> Brandon Dorman wrote:
> > 
> > When I was first starting I really looked hard at K12LTSP.  However, I
> > don't have the funds/hardware to build a server.  Most of my computers
> > are average pc's, so putting on OS on them is ok.  However, if I just
> > installed linux on all of them, could the K12LTSP server me modified to
> > use startup scripts and the like to say, install software, reset the
> > desktop etc., when the installation is on the local harddrive, not the
> > server?  Should I join k12osn-list redhat com?  (i think that's the
> > list, I used to be on that too.)
> 
> 
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Brandon Dorman <brandonfpu yahoo com>
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