Hi, Here at Edgehill, we are beginning the long and laborious process of adding Linux to our ops suite. At the moment, we are serving public datafiles from a Linux box (K6-II-500, 64MB, 13GB HDD) - that was easy(-ish), taking longer to install from CD's than to set up (SAMBA). We are in the early stages of extending this server to support our agèd 486 machines. My assistant-Guru (Say "Hello", Mark), one of our pupils, is setting this up for me. Early indications are that running X locally, displaying server-run programs will give us a reasonable service, reasonably easily. Mark will be documenting his activities once the service is running. I hope to go over to Linux on the main network server summer 2001. Unfortunately, it looks as though we are stuck with WinWorkstations until the reference software is available for Linux systems ... check through the catalogues, all of the useful encyclopedias, multimedia learning soft etc. is only (yet) available for WinPC/MAC/Acorn. We will be trialling some of these with WINE, and I hope that we will be able to share the results. The bottom line, at the moment, seems to be: 9.5/10 for content, 7/10 for ease (much more complex than Win32, but then, more comprehensive software.) 10/10 for standard documentation (could do with more Idiot-Guides, though <sigh>.) 11/10 for support - even if most of the users seem to speak an alien tongue <grin>. Regards, Paul Ellison <SysAdm@edgecoll.clara.net> ICT Manager Edgehill College, IT Department ----------
From: Graham Spratt <graham.spratt@tinyonline.co.uk> To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Marks out of 10! Date: 17 May 2000 22:51
My name is Graham Spratt, and I'm the Computer Technician at Beccles Middle School. We are considering changing operating systems from Win NT on our server and 95 on work stations. One of the systems we are looking at is SuSE 6.4, I would appreciate any E-Mails of peoples experience with Linux especially security issues and ease of set up and use.
Regards Graham Spratt <graham.spratt@tinyonline.co.uk>