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james kilty wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 19:26 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: >> I think if we had someone >> to speak for us in the schools then someone might listen. >> > I was a governor at Helston school for a couple of 4 year terms and > was also a Cornwall County Councillor for a while. I am interested in > putting the case to CCC at least for upgrading to Linux in the schools > at least and use my history as a door key. What has the group done so > far? (I am new to the group as well as Linux). The Linux Format > article a few issues ago is a good start. Well we've had numerous discussions on what would be the ideal solution for schools. Things like LTSP and Moodle have been discussed (from memory). Early this year (or late last year) I mentioned about putting a Live CD together for schools to give out to every pupil in the Torbay area although the cost of creating CDs would have been in the region of about £2000 for CDs, printing etc and that is before any burning of CDs was done. Maybe even a start would be to go into the costs of Linux verses Windows XP & Microsoft Office. There's bound to be some schools that haven't got the money to spend on brand new PCs. Putting a Linux option to them - say a LTSP server and the PCs as LTSP clients could be a possible option. For the applications they need Windows for (i.e. applications that don't run under Wine and don't have any Linux equivalent) an option could be a small server running Windows 2003 and have the LTSP clients connect into the server using Remote Desktop (which is also supported as well as the X client/server). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html