Hi. We just did it this academic year. Unless you have a large budget for new machines then keep the windows machines and use a SuSE server. Works great and speeds up our old P100's very well. It's called Samba and is available with all SuSE distributions. You can keep old windows machines going and share printers, files etc. You can also incorporate SuSE machines too but unless they are powerful enough the students will not use them as they compare them with the graphical front end of windows. The central server is important. Our AMD overheated at the start of most lessons when demand peaked. The Intel chips seem much more reliable. You'll need a broad band DSL connection too. Use squidGuard under squid to cut out the sites you don't want them seeing or chatting upon when your back's turned. There is no specific information on this as far as we have found out but the folk on this list are the most patient I have ever experienced. Being of similar backgrounds them maybe we could get a 'school howto' together. Good luck, Steve. On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:40, Shane A Broomhall wrote:
Hi All,
I have had an interesting Proposal put to me to consider. I have been approached to think about putting Linux in a school to replace their existing Windows based systems. The exact nature of just how much replacing will be done I don't know just yet, but I am seeing this as being a great opportunity to take on an exciting and interesting project.
I am planning on trying to convince the school to Go with SUSE, it is my favorite dist. I am living in Australia, and Red Hat seems to be the flavor of choice here, but like I said I like SUSE. I am hoping that of all the people here on this list that someone has completed, or a least commenced a project to replace Windows with Linux, in a school environment would be Ideal, and can let me know some of the problems or traps to avoid..
I would also be very appreciative if anyone could direct me to where to find any information how to undertake such a project.
I am a bit nervous about this as I have not contemplated doing this before.
I appreciate all of you taking the time to read this and to get back to me.
Thanks and Cheers
Shane Broomhall
Brisbane Australia.