On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Lance Lane wrote:
1. Educators around the World. 2. Educational Developers (Interested of Course in developing applications) 3. Implementation of Linux in the classroom. 4. Practical Application of Linux in the Classroom (Activities) 5. No Tech support for Linux or SuSe. 6. Educational Desktop Developers (KDE, Ximian, Gnome)
Need Feedback on more specifics and covering the Bases!
I think some technical support (or at least ideas about technical implementations) should be allowed, as long as it is specific or common to an academic environment. I was recently thrust (okay, somewhat willingly) into putting together a 25 machine high performance computing lab and workstation cluster. I have used linux for a few years, but have very little experience in the administration of groups of systems. I think most of the questions I will have will be pretty specific to problems running in a university type environment, as opposed to managing systems in a business. For example, here are some things I am working on now, that others at universities or public schools may have dealt with or are dealing with also: 1) How do I easily create 25 identical systems (i.e. write a bootable cd that automatically partitions disks, loads the exact software I want off of NFS, and prompts me for machine name, IP, etc...) and, how do I keep all of these machines exactly the same? 2) Has anyone set up OpenLDAP to use instead of NIS so it can interface with the X.500 databases that many universities run? 3) Setting up systems (yes, windows and mac, too) so that students get their same home directory no matter what machine in the building they log onto, and how to keep this secure. 4) Clustering / Batching 5) How to keep the Linux systems attractive (read: **sexy**) to the students, so they will use it over the windows lab. I have some ideas on most of this stuff, but I don't really have anyone here to bounce them off of. I would like to be able to use this list for that. Thanks! And I'm glad to see this list isn't dead! I think it is a great idea. The more students we get using linux now, the less people we have to ween from microsoft in the future. Michael Stone Mechanical Engineering High Performance Computing / Linux Administration University of Texas at Austin ETC 3.130 ph: 471.5951 agentsmith@mail.utexas.edu Michael Stone Linux Administration University of Texas at Austin - Mechanical Engineering ETC 3.130 ph: 471.5951 agentsmith@mail.utexas.edu