<div dir="ltr">Thanks guys, I give those projects a look. The school wouldn't be operational until fall of '15 if I have the schedule down right, so this will give time for "self education" and testing on some of the old hardware I have laying around before the systems would be needed. "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king," so I may become the resident "expert" by default.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
You should be able to come across old P4, Core 2 Duo, and Athlon x2 systems almost for free... they would be great for such a project. Pair 'em with some good LCDs, swap out the noisy fans/hard drives that will crop up, and you are in business for cheap.<br>
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OK. This is fun.<br>
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K12LTSP runs on CentOS and provides a PXE-boot full desktop for multiple students from a single server.<br>
"Classroom model" is easiest to setup as a basic teacher desktop system has enough horsepower to run 10-15 clients.<br>
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Upstream, use an NFS server to provide all /home for all students and teachers (easy to backup). That same machine can run the other school tools like<br>
<a href="http://richtech.ca/openadmin/" target="_blank">http://richtech.ca/openadmin/</a> and <a href="http://schooltool.org/" target="_blank">http://schooltool.org/</a> <a href="http://www.opensis.com/" target="_blank">http://www.opensis.com/</a> <a href="http://centresis.org/" target="_blank">http://centresis.org/</a><br>
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The advantage of K12LTSP is it will reuse old ancient junk people are willing to throw away. The downside is that junk is power hungry, slow, clunky and seriously "not sexy". If you have a budget, look at getting tiny systems and decent LCD screens and bolt the systems to the back of the screen.<br>
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<a href="http://www.acmemicro.com/Product/12382/Supermicro-1017A-MP-Mini-ITX-Intel-Atom-N2800-SYS-1017A-MP-Embedded-System?c_id=447" target="_blank">http://www.acmemicro.com/Product/12382/Supermicro-1017A-MP-Mini-ITX-Intel-Atom-N2800-SYS-1017A-MP-Embedded-System?c_id=447</a><br>
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and there's stuff like this:<br>
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<a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Thin-Client-Computer-Mini-PC-with-Intel-Atom-N270-1-60Ghz-CPU-1GB-RAM-1/725704599.html" target="_blank">http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Thin-Client-Computer-Mini-PC-with-Intel-Atom-N270-1-60Ghz-CPU-1GB-RAM-1/725704599.html</a><br>
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</div><div class="">On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Greg Clifton <<a href="mailto:gccfof5@gmail.com">gccfof5@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:gccfof5@gmail.com">gccfof5@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
Actually I am thinking of Linux for both. When you're starting with a clean slate, why not?<br>
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</div><div class="">On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a>>> wrote:<br>
Do you mean running Linux for their infrastructure (file, print, web servers, workstations, etc...) or teaching Linux skills?<br>
The former is not a far stretch at all...<br>
Allen B.<br>
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We have a group here in Fayette County trying to start a charter school, possibly in one of the school facilities closed last year by the BOE, due to declining enrollment. Obviously, the budget will be tight. So, naturally I though of all the good work that JK et al did with the APS. My thinking is that we would have a much more supportive environment in a charter school with a limited budget.<br>
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At this point I am asking for suggestions on how they might proceed. Should the charter be approved, there may be a chance to make a few $ on getting things set up.<br>
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