[ale] Palladium/MS: ideas for retaliation

[David Bronson]

I think that Carrol county installed Sun's Diskless Client system
(Sunray clients and some Sun brand server). I don't know if it is
totally diskless but they are xterms at least.

They seemingly are pretty happy with it. A public school system I work
with recently asked for a proposal for diskless clients using Linux for
their media centers. The budget $ go much further with free software and
486/586 recycled computers. The biggest complaint I get is lack of
educational software. Debian Jr. is a good start. You can also take a
look at schoolforge.org for more information on that specific topic.

So I think that public school systems are open to the idea if presented
properly.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:52 AM
To: Dow Hurst
Cc: John Wells; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Palladium/MS: ideas for retaliation

Dow Hurst wrote:

 > Geoffrey, do you have any comments on this?

You know I've got something to say. :)

I'm all for leveraging Linux, but I'll share some realities here.  I 
assume were talking elementary/middle/high school.  Correct me if I'm 
wrong.  Anway, as my wife is a teacher in an elementary school I've got 
some insights into these issues, at least as far as Cobb County goes.  I

assure you the best you will do is replace server environments at this 
level.  Currently Cobb County uses Novel Netware, so they're not totally

M$ shop.

Because of the investment in software these school systems have, and the

comfort level the average teacher has with M$ environment, you won't be 
able to touch the computers in the classroom or labs.

Now, if we're talking servers, yeah, we know that can be done, so I'm 
game.  Question is, where to start?  Who do we talk to?

There is a web site regarding just such an approach here in Georgia, 
unfortunately, it's either gone or unavailable.  The site was 
http://www.wegrow.org/   (wegrow - Where Educators Get Rid Of Windows) 
Searching Google, there's references to the site in the google cache. 
There's a reference to Lassiter High School. There are a couple of email

addresses there, I'm going to send them email and see what's up with 
their efforts.

I'll post more once I hear from the wegrow folks.



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