Re: [school-discuss] Major Linux school deployments

[Dean Montgomery <dmonty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

October 2009  - All Schools in School District 73 are running Diskless Linux clients for students, teachers, secretaries, & principals.  A total of 3200 Diskless workstations.  The count does not include Linux on stand-alone Laptops/Desktops.
Our biggest school is running 236 diskless clients off of one server.

We are happy to answer any questions.

----- "Christian Einfeldt" <einfeldt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Also, has anyone heard what is going on at the Riverdale High School
> in Portland, Oregon? Is Paul Nelson still there?
> 
> I would also love to hear a brief paragraph from people about their
> school deployments. Do you have LDAP or LTSP networks? Do you have
> dedicated computer labs? Do you just have a few standalone Linux
> computers in classrooms?
> 
> I am a volunteer who is supporting two public schools in San Francisco
> with Linux. At one school, we have a 31-seat LDAP Ubuntu lab. That
> school also has about 20 standalone machines in classrooms. Those
> machines are used for basic Internet browsing; for email; and for
> using TuxType, KTouch, and TuxMath.
> 
> At another school, there are about 31 standalone machines which perfom
> similar functions to the machines located in the first school. Our use
> of Linux is rather primitive. We are looking to enhance that usage to
> get more educational benefit from these machines.
> 
> --
> Christian Einfeldt,
> Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

-- 
Dean Montgomery
Network Support Tech./Programmer
dmonty@xxxxxxxxxx
School District #73