[ale] Linux for a Charter School

[Jim Kinney]

OK. This is fun.

K12LTSP runs on CentOS and provides a PXE-boot full desktop for multiple
students from a single server.
"Classroom model" is easiest to setup as a basic teacher desktop system has
enough horsepower to run 10-15 clients.

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
http://richtech.ca/openadmin/  and http://schooltool.org/
http://www.opensis.com/  http://centresis.org/

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.

http://www.acmemicro.com/Product/12382/Supermicro-1017A-MP-Mini-ITX-Intel-Atom-N2800-SYS-1017A-MP-Embedded-System?c_id=447

and there's stuff like this:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Thin-Client-Computer-Mini-PC-with-Intel-Atom-N270-1-60Ghz-CPU-1GB-RAM-1/725704599.html


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually I am thinking of Linux for both. When you're starting with a
> clean slate, why not?
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>
>> Do you mean running Linux for their infrastructure (file, print, web
>> servers, workstations, etc...) or teaching Linux skills?
>> The former is not a far stretch at all...
>> Allen B.
>>
>> --
>> Allen Beddingfield
>> Systems Engineer
>> The University of Alabama
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>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Greg
>> Clifton [gccfof5 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 12:32 PM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>> Subject: [ale] Linux for a Charter School
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
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