Eric Brown wrote:
Hello all,
I thought I'd share with you a successful k12ltsp story from the mainland.
I was inspired by the HOSEF's work in Hawaii after reading an article about
them on Slashdot a few weeks ago.
I'm a math and web design teacher in Keokuk, IA. I was promised 20 new
computers for this school year, but by the time the year started, I was
stuck with my 20 Pentium 233MHz, 64 MB Ram (they'll only take 96), running
Windows 95. If a student went to just one wrong site, the machine was
filled with spyware and slowed to a halt. Most classes, students spent
waiting for the computer to crank along.
I reasearched the idea like mad. I read everything on K12LTSP, subscribed
to this list, and read over HOSEF's website. I shopped on E-Bay, and found
a Quad Pentium III Xenon 550 MHz with 1 GB RAM that I picked up for just
under $500 including shipping. I spent all last week setting up the server
(it really only took that long due to a hardware conflict that I finally
resolved). Yesterday, with the help of my students, I've got 18 machines
running off of the server. 18 run only a little slower than one machine,
and even fully loaded, the machines are running so much better than Windows
95. I was afraid that 1gb ram wouldn't do the job. I brought the principal
down, and he's willing to reimburse me for the server, as well as purchase
more ram (I'm hoping to get my machine up to 4gb).
I plan to have details and pictures up on a web site soon.
Thank you so much HOSEF for helping me find working machines, and helping me
spread the word of open source.
Eric Brown
Keokuk High School
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Great Work Eric.
Al Plant -Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com
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