may I add my two cents to the discussion... I did a presentation at our local school in germany. what they found specifically interesting was:
- I showed them the multi-language feature in ubuntu - I took the thin client, unplugged it, went to the other side of the classroom (had to move some tables and chairs) and plugged it in. after a short time all was back to normal - and I showed them (but I just mention it here for completeness) how to use devolo powerline adapters where there is no cabeling is available. as usual and I guess you have heart that before, they were interested, but afraid of incompatibilities with word and excel. anyway, I hope we will - as they have promised - start an afternoon session with interested teachers and students. rgds, uwe Zitat von Steve Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have done 3 small Edubuntu setups over the last year, two on Dapper and > one Edgy, and I agree with all that Gavin says, with the addition of a > gigabit nic for the server and a switch with at least one gigabit port to > serve a classroom. The terminals are happy with 100Mbit/sec. For smaller > setups I use servers with three 100Mbit nics, one for the 'internet' and two > for the terminals (5 terminals on each server nic), but that needs a bit of > tweaking to set up. 1Gb RAM seems to cope with 10 users. My servers use > software RAID1 (mirroring) and standard IDE drives. > > Also, if your terminals are old, they will boot rather slowly on Edubuntu. I > have 233MHz Pentiums with 48Mb RAM as terminals, and these do better with > the older LTSP 4.2 setup. I am happy to say you can easily do a > 'workstation' Edgy Edubuntu install on the server and then install > LTSP 4.2on that to get better startup times with these old terminals, > without having > to forgo local devices, though sound is dodgy. Hopefully you will have more > up-to-date terminals if your demo is important! > > Steve > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
