Dear all, We have set-up in a pilot primary school in Brussels a configuration based on light diskless X clients, based on LTSP. For the purpose of simplification and performance, we have rewritten the core of LTSP. We are now polishing it and a developper will work full time on the product from Feb 12. We plan to have a publishable system ready by end june (that is easily installable and fully tested). It will be released under GPL.
The connfiguration has the following characteritics: 1/ clients are old 486 with 8 MB Ram or more, a NIC and NO hard-disk, 2/ the server runs DEBIAN Potato, 3/ NO client configuration or manual editing is necessary anymore: just plug the new client (be 486 or other) into the network, boot it on a standard disket if it does not boot from the NIC, and within a minute it is up and running with a default configuration. 4/ We are working on GUI, one local the other WEB based to further customize the configuration of the clients (for exampel allow for larger screen resolution) 5/ We are working the integration of configuration tools to ease the adminsitration by the teachers who are not supposed to know any thing (by integrating AUC and K12ADMIN, and possibly LDAP) 6/ The software used are pretty standard and very similar to the ones that are proposed on this list: no wonder every child needs to learn similar things ! (Lyx, Mozilla, 7/ We are working a cutomizable, free, LOGO system to teach the children how to program. This one should be announced soon. If we find the time soon, we'll set up a page describing the project. Best regards, Nicolas Le Vendredi 19 Janvier 2001 09:07, Fabien Salvi a �crit : > John Gay wrote: > > >IMHO, there are a few important points in such a project : > > >- light administration ==> we wan't to remove computing task to teachers > > >to let them do what they know : teaching ; so we have to explore > > >diskless solutions and other things like this > > > > I'm currently doing some work with remote X-Terminals. I've got one > > working on a 486 with 8M RAM and using about 120M of hard-drive. > Do you look at > http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/ -- Nicolas Pettiaux Avenue du P�rou 29 B-1000 Brussels
