[ubuntu-us-mn] ubuntu-us-mn Digest, Vol 9, Issue 4

[Tony Yarusso]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:29 PM, David Groos <David.Groos at mpls.k12.mn.us>
wrote:

> Hi All,
> This is my first post so I'd like to start out by saying thanks for
> advocating for this great open source software and forming a community here
> in Minnesota.  I became first interested in Ubuntu because of a friend
> advocating for its use as the os for a computer running a Plone server for
> my classroom.  I'm a teacher and long time Mac user who wants to bring
> networks of computers into science classrooms in the Minneapolis Public
> Schools.  However, financially it's not possible so I'm going to try
> creating a thin client network in my classroom as a model.  The district is
> donating a good server and a bunch of pentium III's that are being
> decommissioned.


gah, and this is why the system makes me angry.   We just threw out 50
functional Sun Ray 1 thin clients because we were upgrading them, and
because of the way the environmental laws are set up, we apparently can't
take on the "liability" from giving them away to be reused, so they get
junked instead.  PIIIs should work pretty fabulously too though.

While I'm hopeful that this is a viable option and hope to prove that to the
> district, I know that with any technology there are always tons of tiny
> glitches as one tries to push things beyond the basic.  This is a long way
> of asking, if I brought the server and a pentium to the launch of the hardy
> heron is there anyone that could help me install and attempt to set up the
> HP server as an Edubuntu 8.0.4 thin client server and the PIII as a thin
> client?  Thanks and looking forward to meeting others on Saturday,
> Sincerely,
> David
>

We're currently using Solaris for our thin client stuff, but I'm also hoping
to learn more about LTSP soon.  I'm afraid if I make it to the party at all
it will be for about fifteen minutes in the morning before I head to work,
but perhaps we can connect some other time to play around with this a bit.

Have fun all!

-- 
Tony Yarusso
http://tonyyarusso.com/
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