In case anyone is interested or has a project... For those who don't know
LTSP is the Linux Terminal Server Project, which allows you to boot linux on
your workstations via a bootdisk or a bootrom.
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On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:06 AM
Hello Folks,
We have made available the first version of our K12Linux - LTSP install
CD-Rom.
(Yes you will have to read the whole post to find the link!) ;-^)
Before we get to the nitty gritty, I want to thank all the people who have
worked on LTSP. Your work is about to have a huge impact on schools using
Linux in classrooms.
We also have to acknowledge the work of Eric Harrison from the Multnomah
County Education Service District, OR. He is the one who put in many hours
recompiling source RPM's and testing configurations to make this possible.
He's done a great job. You'll appreciate it when you install and start
booting workstations without editing a single file!
You'll have to go to the web site to download it but here are some quick
highlights:
We've taken RH 7.0 and the LTSP packages and created an almost turn-key
install. Eric has done a great job of integrating the LTSP rpms along with
the RH 7 install engine. We've also incorporated the latest RH7 updates.
Here's a short list of what's on the install CD:
StarOffice - A powerful integrated office application suite (Yes, we have
permission to redistribute StarOffice. It comes fully installed and
functional in this version. It's not open source but Sun has given us
permission to distribute it to schools via this CD-Rom)
Netscape - Your basic web browser
GIMP - A great graphics package
gPhoto - A photograph manipulation tool
Evolution - A complete IMAP/POP mail client and PIM
Dia - A vector based drawing program
DrGenius - A great geometry exploration program
HitchHiker2000 - A 3D tour of the solar system
Gnumeric - A powerful but easy to use spreadsheet
Games - Several fun games - for learning purposes of course! ;-)
FreeCiv - A multi-user Civilization game
More good news, we have 1000 FREE Intel Celeron 366 processors to give away
to schools building K12LTSP workstations. We also have some FREE Xeon 733
cpu's for schools building terminal servers.
We're shooting for 1000 terminals in 100 schools by 1 day - July 4th.
Follow the i-day links for more info on this program.
Ok, you've made it this far...
http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/k12ltsp.html Read up on the project
and follow the links to download the image. It's sitting on a DS3
connection. You'll have the fastest transfer speeds at night when our
network is not as busy.
Remember, this a beta. You are invited to join our listserv and help out!
;-) Paul
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Paul Nelson................... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Riverdale School, 11733 SW Breyman Ave, Portland, OR 97219
school (503)636-4511.....................fax (503)635-6342
Riverdale Web Page......... http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us
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