Hi Malc, our requirements are as follows-
1) Internet access and an office suite (many educational resources and our
learning platform are online) from all machines.
2) 'Limited maintenance' - as a full time teacher the ideal would be to
maintain one machine per classroom and for this to act as a server to the thin
clients within the room. My thinking behind this being if one server fails the
other classrooms are still operational.
3) A master server to provide home directories that can be propagated to the
classroom slave servers.
4) Web caching on the masters and slaves.
The timescale would be setup a pilot classroom in the next month. This solution
is not common in primary schools in Peterborough so I'm sticking my neck out a
bit with this proposal. I need to see if it is practical and manageable in a
classroom environment. I don't think the children will have any problems but
convincing staff may be another matter!
Andy
----- Original Message ----
From: Malcolm Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 12 April, 2008 11:41:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Linux support
Hi Andy,
On Sat, April 12, 2008 3:05 pm, Andy Hudson wrote:
> I'm looking for advice and help in setting up. It would be more
> beneficial to us if we could learn something from the installation
> process rather than having a solution just put in place.
I'm sure if you gave a spec. of your requirements, we could give you a
list of resources to get you started. It also depends on how quickly you
want to get up and running.
> I hope I have replied correctly to this, first time using mailing list!
No different to replying to an individual - just click Reply :).
Malc
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