Newbie- Installing a Edubuntu lab :)

[Vernon Graner]

Hi!

My wife recently took employment with a small private school Austin,
Texas as the technology teacher. The school has a computer lab with
twenty AMD K6-500 machines with 128m RAM, running Windows 98.

When she took over the lab, it was in quite a bit of disarray. I've
gotten all the hardware straightened away (today) and after looking over
the W98 mess, I suggested we dump Windows entirely from the lab and
replace it with edubuntu. :)

We dloaded the install ISO and installed it on a test machine and it
seemed to work fine. So, since we're planning to image the entire room
now (tonight actually) I was wondering if anyone had advice or thoughts
on what we need to do to make the lab fully functional. For example, what
do you folks reccomend for:

1) Internet supervision? (i.e. netnanny type app)

2) Drive imaging (i.e. if a machine gets destroyed by a student)

3) Print management (CUPS? or is there some "quota" system where we can
give students "X" sheets of printing)

4) Grade book/teacher resources

The lab is supposed to be available for children between 2 and 10yr olds
so we need lots of varied apps.

These are just a few of the questions off the top of my head. I'm sure
I'll have more in a few hours! :)

Vern

PS: If anyone thinks this a Very Bad Idea to just "jump in", please let
me know that as well.. :)

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