Re: [school-discuss] Major Linux school deployments

[Michael Shigorin <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:19:04AM -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> I am aware generally of proposed and existing Linux deployments
> in schools in Portland (Oregon), Indiana, Kerala (India),
> Extremadura (Spain), Russia, and Brazil, but I am wondering if
> anyone can summarize in just a paragraph or so what is going on
> with those deployments.

I can try and connect you to people in Russian schools.
So far I've heard rather positive feedback, even if occasional
troubles with hardware (notably printers) would occur.

<shameless plug>

BTW just in case someone needs the low-resource[*] LTSP
implementation which got rolled out and was received
quite favorably, here are "usual" (non-school) images:
ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/4.0/Terminal/4.0.0/iso/
("ru" DVD includes PAE-enabled kernel but needs to have F2
pressed on boot to change country to "Other", "en" CD should
also install on non-PAE-capable processors but holds way less
software of course)

I'm slowly working towards 5.0 releases, in case there's interest
in betas drop me a note and I'll build "English-by-default" iso.

[*] ALT Linux 4.0 Terminal runs on Pentium/16M as a thin client,
    and is quite OK with single-core/512M terminal server.

</shameless plug>

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