[CoLoCo] Linux deployment at Free Horizon Montessori

[Chomafin]

If you are looking at ZaReasons, the 900 (non atom based) series is eligible
for a 100$ rebate.  I hear this is also good for Amazon, but I cannot
confirm.
Here is a link to the PDF with the specific rebate:
http://www.zareason.com/ASUSEeePCMIRJuly08USA.pdf

The offer only lasts between July 8, 2008 and July 31, 2008, so hope it
helps.. This may give you the option of a better machine, and I believe they
are easier to find in stock.
Info found here:
http://www.liliputing.com/2008/07/asus-offers-100-rebate-on-eee-pc-900.html
- Ian

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Joey Stanford <joey at canonical.com> wrote:

> > 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.
>
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