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| Thread ID: 26560 | 2002-10-30 05:06:00 | Linux which flavour best for Schools? | Brad H (738) | Press F1 |
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| 94548 | 2002-10-30 05:06:00 | Next year, we are looking at experimenting with linux on five networked computers all: Compaq Pentium 2 233mhz 1.5Gb Hard Disk 64mb Ram One of the computers will be a server This is for students to experiment with their programming skills on The linux version will also need to be able to be locked down to stop students from unimstalling/installing applications, reformating hard disks etc Which Linux is best for this, where can i get it from, and if appropraite how much will it cost?? |
Brad H (738) | ||
| 94549 | 2002-10-30 05:50:00 | Cost????? ?:| burning a CD of something you download of the net, costs about $1 each I installed redhat sometime ago, any idiot could get that going. I beleive that you allready have the machines, so i expect it will cost about $3, plus someones time .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 94550 | 2002-10-30 07:52:00 | 64Mbytes of RAM is OK but minimal for running Xwindows. With 1.5Gbyte HDDs you will be better to use an older version of RedHat (e.g. RH7.0). I am currently using RH7.3 and the default install is at least 1.5Gbytes (you need some space for data!!). 7.0 is more like 800M of disk space. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 94551 | 2002-10-30 08:19:00 | Have you had a look at the linux terminal server project (ltsp) ? http://www.ltsp.org/ You'd probably need to boost one of the machines to make it a server though. The other machines can be lower specs, since they don't do much work. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 94552 | 2002-10-30 20:20:00 | For a small but still fully featured Linux distro have a look here http://www.peanutlinux.org I have it on cd if you are interested. |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 94553 | 2002-10-30 20:35:00 | May I ask whay the students are going to learn linux? Surely they should be equipped for mainstream business. As I see it linux is an enthusiasts OS which hasn't made it into the mainstream.... yet. Don't get me wrong I'm not rubbishing linux, but I feel that it would be far better value for them to be using what the vast majority of businesses are using. I used to be an Amiga nut, in it's time it was probably the best OS around - but it was always considered to be a games machine, or at best an enthusiastes computer. People seemed to forget that it was widely used for TV graphics and animation. Lots of schools used them (in fact my daughters clas still has one!). But I don't think many people who learned on Amigas 10 or more years ago will have had much opportunity to use those particular skills since. I believe that Microsoft have special arrangements for schools, perhaps it would be worth talking to the to see if they can help. |
crozier (2004) | ||
| 94554 | 2002-10-30 20:47:00 | Er its for people to practise programming on. I doubt that Microsoft has any good deals on programming suites. Linux on the other hand has free programming languages by the truck load. Programmers would eventually run into unix systems... like at university for example... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 94555 | 2002-10-30 20:55:00 | I think it is fair to say that Linux skills are valuable, partly because most of the behind the scenes will always run on a Linux or open sourse structure rather than the microsoft model of create software, try to hack it with the same team that built it, deem it safe when they can't, and then put it out there for the masses to attack and find hundreds of holes in. Also with M$ pricing policies we are watching Linux popularity rise. It would be silly to deny our cleverest student access to such things. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 94556 | 2002-10-31 03:23:00 | Try "linux schools site:nz" to google. There are a number of sites there ... I don't know how many of them are active. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 94557 | 2002-10-31 03:31:00 | > Next year, we are looking at experimenting with linux > on five networked computers all: > > Compaq > Pentium 2 233mhz > 1.5Gb Hard Disk > 64mb Ram > > One of the computers will be a server > > This is for students to experiment with their > programming skills on > The linux version will also need to be able to be > locked down to stop students from > unimstalling/installing applications, reformating > hard disks etc > > Which Linux is best for this, where can i get it > from, and if appropraite how much will it cost?? Have you had a look at the Knoppix distro on last months cover disc? Knoppix says that it wants 82MB RAM (Where 82 comes from, I dunno?) to run minimally. 1.5GB Would be okay, as long as you werent planning on doing the office suites. An older version of RedHat would fit nicely, but I know that my current 8.0 install is about 1.6 GB without Koffice or OpenOffice. If the PC's take SD-RAM, you can order anoth 128 for each from DSE for about 50 bucks a pop, and that could be a lesson, installing the RAM in each. I take it you're wanting some form of GUI for the students?! |
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