Re: Open Source Software in Public Schools

Allan Samaroo wrote:
> RHS, what were your experiences with Shiva's school like?  What were the
> objectives and how were obstacles overcome?
> 
> Allan. 
> 

Well, his boss, the principal, is very aware of the license problem that 
using Microsoft software creates.
The lab itself is large and spacious. Most of the PCs are the same 
model, so that helps.

What we worked on, was getting a server up. Shiva hadn't himself built 
the server, so we encountered some strange stuff until he got another 
CPU cooler.

I eventually installed Slackware 9,0 and got Samba working. Shiva wanted 
to look at the techique I use to handle boot images which depends on 
DHCP and TFTP, so we worked on getting that set up as well.

Finally, we created a boot image and I demo-ed downloading it from the 
server.

That was basically it. We've not managed to get together since them. My bad.

Richard