[ale] Linux for a Charter School

[Scott Castaline]

Or how about setting up minimal number of client/workstations, okay 
initially they may have to share, but for the learning Linux part get a 
crap load of Raspberry Pis, decent LCDs, kybds & rodents. Have classes 
on putting them together themselves. Kill 2 birds with one stone.

Scott C.

On 03/21/2014 04:25 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> You should be able to come across old P4, Core 2 Duo, and Athlon x2 systems almost for free...  they would be great for such a project.  Pair 'em with some good LCDs, swap out the noisy fans/hard drives that will crop up, and you are in business for cheap.
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> Allen Beddingfield
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> OK. This is fun.
>
> K12LTSP runs on CentOS and provides a PXE-boot full desktop for multiple students from a single server.
> "Classroom model" is easiest to setup as a basic teacher desktop system has enough horsepower to run 10-15 clients.
>
> Upstream, use an NFS server to provide all /home for all students and teachers (easy to backup). That same machine can run the other school tools like
> http://richtech.ca/openadmin/  and http://schooltool.org/  http://www.opensis.com/  http://centresis.org/
>
> The advantage of K12LTSP is it will reuse old ancient junk people are willing to throw away. The downside is that junk is power hungry, slow, clunky and seriously "not sexy". If you have a budget, look at getting tiny systems and decent LCD screens and bolt the systems to the back of the screen.
>
> http://www.acmemicro.com/Product/12382/Supermicro-1017A-MP-Mini-ITX-Intel-Atom-N2800-SYS-1017A-MP-Embedded-System?c_id=447
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> and there's stuff like this:
>
> http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Thin-Client-Computer-Mini-PC-with-Intel-Atom-N270-1-60Ghz-CPU-1GB-RAM-1/725704599.html
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> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com<mailto:gccfof5 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Actually I am thinking of Linux for both. When you're starting with a clean slate, why not?
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu<mailto:allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
> Do you mean running Linux for their infrastructure (file, print, web servers, workstations, etc...) or teaching Linux skills?
> The former is not a far stretch at all...
> Allen B.
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> Allen Beddingfield
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> The University of Alabama
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> Subject: [ale] Linux for a Charter School
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> We have a group here in Fayette County trying to start a charter school, possibly in one of the school facilities closed last year by the BOE, due to declining enrollment. Obviously, the budget will be tight. So, naturally I though of all the good work that JK et al did with the APS. My thinking is that we would have a much more supportive environment in a charter school with a limited budget.
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> At this point I am asking for suggestions on how they might proceed. Should the charter be approved, there may be a chance to make a few $ on getting things set up.
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