On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I look after a country school of 340 students. last year we went from 4 > > PC's to 40 decent computers, this years we jump to 80 good computers, (30 > > in a lab). I would like to introduce Linux so I am planning to install > > Edubuntu loaded with LSTP which seems like the business. > > > > I have dropped SUSE FEDORA REDHAT in favour of Edubuntu. Having read a > > couple of posts I understand that the release expected in April? will > > have a more robust version of LSTP however I don't think I can wait that > > long,= > > =20 > > > so I will probably go with what is available at present. > > > > I have also been playing with something called SCUMMVM and CROSSOVER with > > my kids at home and working out what applications and games I would like > > = > > to > > > distribute to the kids at the school, so I guess I am hoping to > > intergrate them all, I am hoping to put games like "Beneath the Steel > > Sky" and "Flight of the Amazon Queen" as well as a few ARCADE games, from > > the post= > > s, > > > I expect issues with sound? > > > > I am looking for : > > - any advice you can throw my way to make things easier > > - suggestions for applications and games that the kids are most likely to > > want to use > > - issues and likely pitfalls > > > > -- > > Roland Munyard > > http://www.munyard.com > > http://www.homeschool.co.uk > > Australia (07) 5494 0001 > > In my opinion SuSE9.3/10 is an EXCELLENT choice for LTSP in an environment > = =20 > like the one you describe. > We've setup 10+ schools until now using SuSE and LTSP. > With SuSE you get a very well known environment with a very broad base > of=20 users worldwide.=20 > > When setting up LTSP, look out for bandwidth use. Streaming video and > sound= is=20 > diffifult and so forth. This is not due to LTSP but a general thing.
I hesitated to put in my $0.02, but decided to anyway: IMHO SuSE yast is one of the easiest, most consistent sys admin tools around. You as administrator may have biases, but on the day you're sick and the janitor needs to setup the networking <yea thats rubbish, but you get the picture> then yast is easy to learn and easy to hand-hold somebody through. You will look long and hard to do better, specially as your questions put you into the lesser-expert class. James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
