Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (46 mails)

[Andy Trevor <andy.trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 13 April 2006 08:39, Paul Taylor wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 23:12, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 20:40 +0100, garry saddington wrote:
> > > > Another example is the compulsory KS3 "online" testing which requires
> > > > a Windows client machine to run on. QCA are responsible for
> > > > commissioning this software and it is propriatory software vendor RM
> > > > who are implementing it. Schools running Linux thin clients have been
> > > > told to "get Citrix" at the cost of thousands of pounds.
> > >
> > > They have not told me - yet.
> >
> > Interestingly the server software for the KS3 online testing is written
> > on top of tomcat and postgresql, however we have been told that the
> > Linux server has been scraped now
>
> Are you sure about that Tim?  I have just set up the Redhat version at my
> school that was provided by RM with reasonably good documentation.  I set
> it up just before the holidays and left the technicians to get it going
> over the holidays so don't know how well it is doing.

I had a long chat with the RM team about three weeks ago.  It was still up and 
running then, however it will only run on Redhat.

>
> Paul
>
> > --
> > Tim Fletcher
> > Learning Technologies Manager - Parrs Wood High School

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Regards

Andy Trevor
Technical Director
Cutter Project Limited

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