X-term configuratio nand LTSP (was Re: Debian for education and PingOO)
Dear all,
We have set-up in a pilot primary school in Brussels a configuration based on
light diskless X clients, based on LTSP. For the purpose of simplification
and performance, we have rewritten the core of LTSP. We are now polishing it
and a developper will work full time on the product from Feb 12. We plan to
have a publishable system ready by end june (that is easily installable and
fully tested). It will be released under GPL.
The connfiguration has the following characteritics:
1/ clients are old 486 with 8 MB Ram or more, a NIC and NO hard-disk,
2/ the server runs DEBIAN Potato,
3/ NO client configuration or manual editing is necessary anymore: just plug
the new client (be 486 or other) into the network, boot it on a standard
disket if it does not boot from the NIC, and within a minute it is up and
running with a default configuration.
4/ We are working on GUI, one local the other WEB based to further customize
the configuration of the clients (for exampel allow for larger screen
resolution)
5/ We are working the integration of configuration tools to ease the
adminsitration by the teachers who are not supposed to know any thing (by
integrating AUC and K12ADMIN, and possibly LDAP)
6/ The software used are pretty standard and very similar to the ones that
are proposed on this list: no wonder every child needs to learn similar
things ! (Lyx, Mozilla,
7/ We are working a cutomizable, free, LOGO system to teach the children how
to program. This one should be announced soon.
If we find the time soon, we'll set up a page describing the project.
Best regards,
Nicolas
Le Vendredi 19 Janvier 2001 09:07, Fabien Salvi a écrit :
> John Gay wrote:
> > >IMHO, there are a few important points in such a project :
> > >- light administration ==> we wan't to remove computing task to teachers
> > >to let them do what they know : teaching ; so we have to explore
> > >diskless solutions and other things like this
> >
> > I'm currently doing some work with remote X-Terminals. I've got one
> > working on a 486 with 8M RAM and using about 120M of hard-drive.
> Do you look at
> http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/
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Nicolas Pettiaux
Avenue du Pérou 29
B-1000 Brussels
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