Re: [Novell educ list] opensuse for education

James Tremblay aka SLEducator <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.schools.usa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Travis,
We have been deeply involved with the development of 5 for some time
now. The team has integrated and even led much of the development  of
not only v5 put the exploration not only into local app and sound
support  but also clustering. if you are interested in more details or
help join us at #opensuse-edu at irc.freenode.net or post questions to
our mailing list by first subscribing. [email protected]

Travis Smith wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:15 PM, James Tremblay aka SLEducator
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone,
>     As the founder of the openSUSE-EDU project , I am beaming like a new
>     farther over our "li-f-e" live disks.
>     http://en.opensuse.org/Education/live  Please, if you have any
>     interest
>     in open source software in the classroom or
>     simply want to try the best implementation of LTSP available, then
>     download a copy our "stable" and give it a try.
>     This disk is bootable and makes no changes to your hardware, in fact,
>     given a lab that uses a single isolated switch.
>     This disk can transform that room into a modern Linux lab in seconds.
>     Simply boot the disk to reach the Gnome desktop,
>     double click the easy LTSP icon (hit the enter key when the password
>     prompt is presented) and that PC is now an LTSP server.
>     next make sure your other machines boot from PXE as the first
>     device and
>     boot up to 5 client machines using an average PC with 512 mb of Ram as
>     the server. http://en.opensuse.org/Education/live#KIWI-LTSP
>     Please feel free to contact me for more information.
>
>     p.s. as the project manager for openSIS I invite you to visit
>      http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/06/17/need-investors-and-developers/
>     Please help if you can.
>
>     --
>     James A. Tremblay
>     openSIS Product Specialist
>
>
> Great work James, out of curiosity is the LTSP being used 4 still or
> have they made the jump to 5? Also, any discussion being held
> regarding local apps support?
>
> Thanks, we all appreciate the extra time you put into these projects.
>
> -Travis
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James A. Tremblay
openSIS Product Specialist
http://www.os4ed.com
http://www.opensis.com
e-mail james "at" os4ed.com
Phone (678)392-4031
Registered Linux user #440182
openSUSE-Education founder
http://en.opensuse.org/education
e-mail sleducator "at" opensuse.org
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