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Re: [school-discuss] Educational Killer App for OpenSource




From: Peter Scheie <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> However, I plan to explore putting the OS-NX onto a pico USB stick, and booting from that.  They're
> cheap, about  about $6 a piece right now.  That way, the techs can just crank out a whole bunch of the
> sticks, put them into the netbooks, and give some extras to the teachers.  When a student gets one
> that doesn't boot because the previous user managed to trash it (intentionally or otherwise), the teacher
> can just replace it with one of the extras.  Using USB sticks means the techs can prepare them without
> having to gather up all the netbooks, reducing their load.

I googled for OS-NX, can't seem to find this project. I googled for OS-NX, can't seem to find this project. I assume it can boot anywhere in any hosted environment via any delivery/media infrastructure.

So machines can PXE-boot over Wifi? Interesting!

/leebert