[ale] Linux for a Charter School

Fri Mar 21 17:14:30 EDT 2014

I can do some work for free on LTSP if you want to. Although my experience
dates back to 2002-3 with versions 3.x and 4.x.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> ________________________________
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney [
>> jim.kinney at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 3:20 PM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> 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
>> ________________________________
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org> [
>> ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] on behalf of Greg
>> Clifton [gccfof5 at gmail.com<mailto: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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