[ale] Linux for a Charter School

[Greg Clifton]

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.


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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> jim.kinney at gmail.com]
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> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux for a Charter School
>
> 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<mailto:
> 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<mailto:
> 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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> 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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> at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
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