[OS:N:] Getting started

[doug newcomb <dnewcomb triad rr com>]

Karsten,

I don't have a case study for you, but I can tell you the way we got
started. 

1) I set up Dansguardian  on linux as a proxy for their web traffic.
This gave enough credibility to open source solutions to give a demo
for:
   
2) K12LTSP - Implemented on 1 dual CPU Xeon 2GHz box with 2GB RAM and 25
clients ( Pentium II 266 -450 MHz).  More manageable and no viruses, but
things were rather sluggish when everyone opened OpenOffice.  Also added
Samba for Windows Domain controller to replace Windows 2000 server. 

 During this time we found out that we could get surplus State
government computers for $20 each (P4 1.7 GHz + 512 MB RAM), which has
led to:

3) 25 Fedora desktops with IPtables configured to route all web traffic
to the proxy server.  Centos server using NIS + Samba  for
authorization/authentication.  Want to go to LDAP, but haven't gotten
there yet.



> We've got a small but fairly active group in Santa Cruz County looking
> at some similar ideas.  One start is with a private school a few folks
> are parents at.  I like that idea for a chance to test the process in a
> controlled environment.  After that, we were frankly going to approach
> the local charter high schools, see if anyone was interested in the
> idea.  Figuring the case study would help.
> 
> Is there somewhere that has a good set of case studies of schools (of
> all types) migrating infrastructure, productivity, and/or coursework to
> be open source based?


Doug