[ale] Linux for a Charter School

Fri Mar 21 17:24:15 EDT 2014

Something else: At my previous employer there are about 100 citrix
terminals sitting in boxes. I have tried to boot from usb and works
perfectly. You can ask them to give you price on package or donate to you
(Churches are all about donations). I believe these terminals consume
around 5W or 15 W I can't remember.

http://www.realwire.com/writeitfiles/V%20class%20high%20res.jpg

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> --
>>> James P. Kinney III
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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