Hi, I received the message below from Simon Knight. Thankyou Simon for this informative message.
Having read (skimmed through) the requirements for a server, and looked at the overview, it is clear that the ministry of ed is not fixated on windows. They explicity accept linux servers, and quote redhat linux 9 and suse. However, it is clear also that doing a LTSP network is going to be work work work and dollars dollars dollars. Comment ? Derek. -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me...... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 12:11:09 +1200 From: Simon Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: proposal for publicity Ministry of Education School ICT Network Infrastructure Upgrade Project http://www.minedu.govt.nz/index.cfm?layout=document&documentid=9680&data=l This link may be on interest, also check out the documents at the bottom of the web page. The survey of all schools IT physical structure is scheduled to be complete at the end of the year. The survey will help form the minimum standards of networking and server equipement to be supplied to schools. There does not seem to be much of a mention of using linux in the documents. May be it would be better for the long term to focus on getting a linux section into the standard rather than deploying a one off project in the immediate future? It is surprising how many schools do have some sort of linux use mainly firewall-gateway software-router an intranet httpd server or some times a mailserver or even a samba server. thou not much or anything on the desktop. properly the biggest deployment might be the smartnet system, from comments I have heard most staff don't even know its a linux system anyway, its just smartnet. I think a lot of the already installed systems wont come close to the minimum standard soon to be setup and could be the demise a lot of similar systems that in most cases are doing a super job with little maintenance, who have often been setup by an individual with an interest in linux and to help out a school get up and running on a network.
