Greetings

Hello again Abraham,

I'm also forwarding this to the edubuntu-devel list.

Oliver Grawert (Edubuntu Lead Developer) and Scott Balneaves
(LTSP) will
be able to give comments on LTSP ...

Could you please send some guide to the machine spec of the
older Win 98
machines that you'd propose to use with LTSP ? 

Thanks

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 17:02 -0800, Richard Weideman wrote:
> Hello Abraham,
> 
> Thanks for the mail ... and positive comments.
> 
> David Trask should be able to give you some good first
hand feedback.
> 
> David was at our Ubuntu development conference last
week, held in sunny
> California, graciously hosted by Google in Mountain
View.
> 
> David is an enthusiastic teacher and keen user of
Edubuntu, and is
> helping influence the future features and direction of
the product.
> 
> As a matter of interest, what do you currently run in
your school ?
> 
> Regards
> Richard
> 
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:36 -0800, Abraham Rolick
wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> > 
> > My name is Abe and I currently work for a smaller
K-12 school district
> > in the Sunny Southern California.  I've just
recently installed Kubuntu
> > at home (it was suggested by a friend of mine who
is helping develop
> > some parts of KDE) and was very impressed with how
clean the installer
> > was and how quickly I had my system up and
running.
> > 
> > I've run several Linux distributions in the past
including Slackware,
> > RedHat, Debian, Gentoo, etc. and also FreeBSD and
OpenBSD.  (I should
> > probably admit that I am a big OpenBSD user and
advocate.)
> > 
> > I just today learned about Edubuntu and would like
to give it a shot in
> > some of our classrooms.  We have many, many older
machines which
> > currently run Windows 98 and probably wouldn't
stand much of a chance
> > running XP.  So I would like to see how well an
installation of Edubuntu
> > will perform on them.  Can anyone share some of
their success stories
> > with this distribution in the K-12 environment?  I
noticed that there is
> > great multi-lingual support which would be a great
benefit to us here in
> > SoCal where a large part of the population speaks
both English and
> > (sometimes primarily) Spanish.
> > 
> > Regards,
> >  
> > Abe
> > 
-- 
Richard Weideman
+27 (83) 321-2233
richard.weidemancanonical.com

Education Programme Manager
Canonical Ltd - Linux for Human Beings
http://www.edubuntu.org
http://www.ubuntu.com


-- 
edubuntu-devel mailing list
edubuntu-devellists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:12:16PM -0800, Richard Weideman
wrote:

> > > I just today learned about Edubuntu and would
like to give it a shot in
> > > some of our classrooms.  We have many, many
older machines which
> > > currently run Windows 98 and probably
wouldn't stand much of a chance
> > > running XP.  So I would like to see how well
an installation of Edubuntu
> > > will perform on them.  Can anyone share some
of their success stories
> > > with this distribution in the K-12
environment?  I noticed that there is
> > > great multi-lingual support which would be a
great benefit to us here in
> > > SoCal where a large part of the population
speaks both English and
> > > (sometimes primarily) Spanish.

Any box that would run '98 would make an excellent terminal.
 Don't know
what kind of network you have locally, but if it's 100 base
T, that
should be fine too.

How many terminals are we talking about?

Scott


-- 
Scott L. Balneaves | "Let us endeavor so to live that
when we come to die
Systems Department |  even the undertaker will be
sorry."
Legal Aid Manitoba |    -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead
Wilson's Calendar"

-- 
edubuntu-devel mailing list
edubuntu-devellists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel