Hi there The tuXlabs project in South Africa has been rolling out thin-client Linux labs to schools since 2002. They may have experience, materials and code to share.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttleworth_Foundation#tuXlabs http://www.inkululeko.co.za/projects Unfortunately it seems their main website died .. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:03 PM, C David Rigby <[email protected]> wrote: > Good day Everyone, > > During OSSPAC 16 - 18 Feb 2009, I had the pleasure of meeting > Mr. Steven Shiau. Steven Shiau is a researcher and the manager of the > Grid Technology Division at the National Centre for High-Performance > Computing in Taiwan. He is also project leader for the Clonezilla > (http://clonezilla.org/) and DRBL (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/) > projects. > > Mr. Steven Shiau is now seeking collaborators and participants > for a new project aimed at bridging the digital divide using free and > open source software (FOSS). (See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide for more information.) His > goal is to leverage Clonezilla and DRBL to help educators create a > computer environment running FOSS on an existing installed base of > networked PCs. By utilizing a server running the Clonezilla and DRBL > software, educators can provide a computer lab with the ability to run > the latest GNU/Linux distributions and other FOSS software without > disturbing the software installed on the hard disks of the client PCs. > In this way, schools and other institutions can get maximum value from > their existing hardware and avoid the costly upgrade cycle imposed by > proprietary software. > > Anyone interested in helping with this project should contact Steven > Shiau directly at steven _at_ nchc org tw. > > Kindest regards, > C David Rigby > > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet -- jean . .. .... //\\\oo///\\ _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
