>Recently, >I obtained the permission to install free Oses in 3 systems in my Lab. I am >planning >to go ahead with a Fedora 10. in 2 systems and possibly OpenSolaris 08-11 on >1. >(I also gave Lenny, Scientific Linux and CentOS a thought since they are >rock solid. But >I doubt if we need such a Rock Solid distro where kids might want the latest >toys. >Also Debian Squeeze is a choice which I have not ruled out yet.) > >Given that 10 out of 10 (:P) machines are using more cycles battling viruses >and trojans >on the current Windows XP install, I feel that this will be a welcome break. >Also, it will >give some students of the current pre-final year to embrace a F/OSS final >year project. > >I am planning on the current software configuration (The systems are P4 3.0 >GHz machines >with 512 mb RAM) >
Hi, Our FOSS Lab Server might help you to implement a FOSS network in your college. It's a preconfigured server (not big enough and looks slim, people often told me, looks like a DVD player) to remotely install any of the community distros like Fedora-10 for i386 (nearly 20 GB of fedora repository + rpmfusion) + 15 GB of source code of Fedora-10 Debian Lenny 5.0 for i386 (latest stable version nearly 20 GB) + 18 Gb of source code as 4 ISO's OpenSUSE 11.1 for i386, x86-64 Mandriva 2009 for i386, x86-64 CentOS 5.2 for i386, x86-64 K12Linux Based on Fedora-10, Fedora-9 Ubuntu 8.10 for i386, x86-64 FreeBSD 7.1 for i386 NetBSD 4.0 for i386 and much more TLDP (Full website) + Linux Gazette online magazine All GNU Documentations (more than 1 GB) Linux Kernel source code (Historic version 0.01 to 2.6.28.7 - the latest): 27 GB Windows based Free / Open Source Softwares (Nearly 12 GB) http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/winfoss.pdf Small Linux distros (like, smoothwall, ipcop, thinstation, openfiler, freenas and several others) The overall collection of latest distros comes around more than 300 GB. We have installed Fedora-10 distro in the following colleges recently using our FOSS Lab Server which is being provided free for one day while conducting FOSS workshops. Easwari Engineering Colleges, Chennai - Fedora-10: 65 computers, CentOS: 30 computers Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi: Fedora-10: 140 computers (installed in just 6 hours) Hindustan Engineering College, Padur: Fedora-10: Nearly 70 computers Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram,: Fedora-10 about 60 Computers Krishnasamy Engineering College, Cuddalore: Fedora-10 in 30 computers The complete Fedora-10 repository with rpmfusion is provided and setup (in their own servers/machines) in all the above colleges. If any colleges in Tamilnadu (engg./arts, science/polytechnics) willing to setup FOSS lab, we can provide our FOSS lab server free-of-cost for one day, were they can install around 200 machines in a day. If any colleges interested, pl. write to linuxbas...@gmail.com / opensou...@vsnl.net Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Chennai. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc