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Dear people!
Today the director of the school of my
daughter begged me to install an LTSP and file server with a full functional
Sugar environment capable of sharing Sugar for diskless terminals and if
possible the terminals sharing activities asap.
The server is not very fat but will be feed with
ram, terminals are 8 to 10 very old pc´s, some of them P1 32 mb ram.
The terminals should complement the lack of xo
laptops with Sugar for cases in which children broke theirs and there are a lot
of them broken. If I have success the experience will be forwarded for a
lot of schools but for myself will not earn anything. In the Sugar irc channel I asked about using soas installed on pc
or Debian Edu (I like Debian because it´s light but have no experience with
Debian-Edu) or other Edu-distros and they sent me to you.
If Sugar is installed as default desktop (I don´t
think it´s possible) the network will have no more than ten terminals, this
would be an emergency network.
If Sugar is emulated (most possibly) and
there is another default desktop I want Sugar working with all 10
pc terminals in case of working with Sugar and in case of working with the
other environment the network should include up to 15 xo´s as terminals
(less than 25 terminals). This would be a more elegant and more useful
network.
I would prefere the second option from the
beginning.
The lenguage must be spanish.
The xo´s terminals I have to work with are xo-1
with Sugar and the root password is and will be unknown by me for security
reasons, in fact it is a secret of state here in my country Uruguay, so there
are a lot of programms not present by default which I can´t install. For example
NFS support is possibly not installed, ftp is not installed. Samba is not
present.
A few days ago I managed to setup a network at
home with Winxp as ftp and rdesktop server and tree terminals, one an
xo-1 with Sugar an two diskless pc´s with DSL or Puppi Linux live cd´s. They
worked all very well, I could even download files with ftp from the browser.
That´s my experience and there is no other for doing this job.
My questions are: ¿Is Sugar fully functional in
Debian-Edu (Lenny)? ¿Can Sugar be run for 10 diskless terminals? ¿Can
activities be shared?
¿Where can I find guides for setting up the server?
¿Which live-cd and floppy distros do you suggest for booting in the diskless
terminals?
¿Which packages do you recommend for a school with
children from 6 to 12 years old (¿ground school?)?
¿What else do you recommend for making a nice
educational network?
Thank you very much.
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