On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Ken Yap wrote: > http://www.citi.org.za/Article/1000/1003/2058.html > > LTSP is one of the components of this concept. Also note the crafty way > in which the connectivity is provided. > > Sorry if I'm stealing your thunder Andy but this is great work and I'm > just worried you're too modest to publicise it yourself.
Hey, thanks !! We also got another article in San Jose Mercury News last weekend - http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001335.shtml Mostly talking about Open Source, but Dan has said he will run another article talking about the delayed connectivity aspect of it. Website:- http://www.wizzy.org.za/ For those to l*zy to read it .. :-) For developing countries, dialup access is expensive. For a school, it can cost a teachers salary. 56K dialup for a school means the familiar World Wide Wait. We take advantage of flat rate after hours dialling, and scoop websites and deliver mail overnight, to be served from a local webcache (wwwoffle) on the LAN. For folks that cannot even get phone connectivity, we can carry /exactly/ the same (websites to be scooped, mail, website content) on a USB memory stick. All traffic is carried via UUCP - I have just arranged that UUCP traffic can be carried on a memory stick. Someone can now run back and forth, and pretend they are a telephone line :-) Originally we simply wanted to provide a server on an existing LAN at the school - and not get involved with the LAN itself. However, we got a lot of requests to sort out the LAN as well. Inevitably they do not have proper licencing for a Windows Lab, and I am not touching a Windows lab with a ten foot pole .. So, we started installing Thin Client Labs, with great success. When I pitch our solution, I stress that there are two components, the Wizzy bit, and the LTSP bit. There is no doubt the LTSP bit is a lifesaver for low-budget school labs. What we stress for LTSP is the maintenance aspect. A Windows Lab has a collection of PCs, each with their own personality. This one has a good game, that one someone busted the fonts, the other has a horrible background .. With LTSP each learner has their own environment, which they bring to the computer they are sitting at. Now there are hundreds of personalities, that belong to people, not machines. We have a bush school, up near the South Africa/Swaziland/Mozambique border at Ingwavuma, where you cannot believe the effort the kids have put in to their desktops. We use XFCE as a Window Manager. We are hastily arranging that /~username URLs work on the LAN, and hope to channel their creativity into more vocational areas .. Enough ranting - we return you to your regular diet of Progress Patches, boot problems, DHCP configs .. :-) Cheers, Andy! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
