Hi! My wife recently took employment with a small private school Austin, Texas as the technology teacher. The school has a computer lab with twenty AMD K6-500 machines with 128m RAM, running Windows 98.
When she took over the lab, it was in quite a bit of disarray. I've gotten all the hardware straightened away (today) and after looking over the W98 mess, I suggested we dump Windows entirely from the lab and replace it with edubuntu. :) We dloaded the install ISO and installed it on a test machine and it seemed to work fine. So, since we're planning to image the entire room now (tonight actually) I was wondering if anyone had advice or thoughts on what we need to do to make the lab fully functional. For example, what do you folks reccomend for: 1) Internet supervision? (i.e. netnanny type app) 2) Drive imaging (i.e. if a machine gets destroyed by a student) 3) Print management (CUPS? or is there some "quota" system where we can give students "X" sheets of printing) 4) Grade book/teacher resources The lab is supposed to be available for children between 2 and 10yr olds so we need lots of varied apps. These are just a few of the questions off the top of my head. I'm sure I'll have more in a few hours! :) Vern PS: If anyone thinks this a Very Bad Idea to just "jump in", please let me know that as well.. :) -- Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE | "If the network is down, then you're Senior Systems Engineer | obviously incompetent so why are we Texas Information Services | paying you? Of course,if the network http://www.txis.com | is up, then we obviously don't need Austin Office 512 328-8947 | you, so why are we paying you?" ©VLG -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
