[ale] Palladium/MS: ideas for retaliation

[Charles Marcus]

Although I don't have time to participate in this directly, I think this is a
great idea...

And it only makes sense to not re-invent the wheel, so my suggestion would be
to concentrate efforts on what has been proven to work:

www.ltsp.org

Using LTSP makes support and maintenance much more doable, and Jim McQ and
company will soon (hopefully) be incorporating Training and Support
capabilities using some form of terminal redirection scheme (VNC, X0rfbserver
or something similar), which will be the icing on the cake for this incredibly
powerful implementation of Linux.

And, there is already a group who have been customizing it specifically for
the K-12 environment, and there are now *many* installations, in many
different countries:

www.k12ltsp.org

I have been playing with LTSP for over a year, and I can speak from
experience - it is most excellent.

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dow Hurst [mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:17 AM
> To: John Wells; ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Palladium/MS: ideas for retaliation
>
>
> This is a good time to let your anger at Microsoft's
> miserable attitudes
> and business practices motivate you to write your government
> officials.
>  Also, we should leverage our local influence and expertise
> into helping
> local school systems avoid MS ensnarement before time wastes
> even more.
>
> A good ALE project would be to develop a realistic plan to implement
> Linux across the GA school system.  How many local ALE
> members are there
> in total?  Do we have enough people interested in helping if we
> scheduled few dates this year to develop a project to fight
> back against
> MS invading schools here?  We would need someone used to
> managing large
> projects, which definitely counts me out! ;-)   I am used to being a
> peon, but a good hardworking peon!  I think we would need:
>
> Management guru
> Buttkicker (motivator) guru
> Security expert
> MS and Linux software integration guru
> Networking guru
> Lot's of intelligent workers in teams
> A few good programmers in teams
> A couple of years commitment
>
> Anyone want to jump into discussing this?  This is not a
> simple project
> nor a short project, but it could be very rewarding in the long term.
>  Geoffrey, do you have any comments on this?  I know I talked with a
> Cobb school employee, a very nice lady, who explained she was on the
> team that updates the master database of all students in Cobb
> schools.
>  This is around ~100K students sized database.  She talked
> about there
> being firewalls in place, but that they would map drives
> between schools
> and such.  I was cringing thinking of the license fees to run
> all those
> NT and Win2K servers behind expensive Checkpoint firewalls.
> I am sure
> that we could spend the rest of our lives in ALE on a project
> like this.
> :-)
> Dow
>
>
> John Wells wrote:
>
> >It's on /., but thought I'd send it out.  I think everyone
> on this list
> >needs to take the time to read and digest the questions
> presented here:
> >
> >http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25378.html
> >
> >
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