[CoLoCo] Linux deployment at Free Horizon Montessori

[Joey Stanford]

> We're probably going to order 9 Asus Eee PC's today.  Does anyone know where I can get a good deal on these?

http://www.zareason.com/shop/product.php?productid=16178&cat=0&page=1

They can load Ubuntu on these if you leave them a comment but it
requires you to reconfigure wifi and and some other stuff after each
kernel upgrade.  I have a little script that does it for me. Note this
is the 900 which is much better than the original (although also more
expensive).


> One problem - The Asus Eee PC's are designed to run as single user machines.  I need some way of allowing people to login as the default Eee user, and then browse to their own private samba user shares without breaking the security.   Question: is there some samba browser that can authenticate and then automatically unmount the share at logout and/or after some time period?  The Eee runs Xandros Linux, which I'm informed is derivative of Ubuntu.

I've never used the Xandros system so I have to pass on this.

> We also have some very elderly laptops that I'm refurbishing.  I've gotten some good performance improvements by 1) switching from xfce to openbox, 2) tuning swappiness down, and 3) setting noatime in fstab.  Any other suggestions?

This is what I was doing for quite sometime. I'd recommend "relatime"
over "noatime" though.  If you want to do some extreme tuning, look at
the tuning instructions for the debian arm port on the nslu2.