Re: [K12OSN] Non-school k12lts uses?

Tom Brown (tbrown@michiana.org)
Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:32:20 -0500 

Check out our nonprofit association, FREE GEEK MICHIANA. We're doing
neighborhood computer labs and adult computer training. 


http://community.michiana.org/freegeek/

K12ltsp works well with adults down to middle school kids. Below middle
school the children prefer Windows based games which are readily available
as donations by families whose children have outgrown the games. Your Win95
workstations will be perfect. Boot to k12ltsp with a boot floppy or boot
off the hard drive into W95 for the cdrom games. 

K12ltsp is used by our tech volunteers in their own homes, most of which
are networked.

So far we've haven't installed k12ltsp in a nonprofit office environment.
In a strictly office environment we are probably disposed to using straight
ltsp over a pared down RedHat 7.3 or Debian install rather than k12ltsp.
But if the office network is also used for education and entertainment,
k12ltsp would be fine.

Our geeks (me included) are experimenting with Vector Linux/Slackware on
our FreeBoxes (low resource PCs). So far so good. K12ltsp is too much for
standalone FreeBoxes -- the installer won't even run on some of them. But
Vector/Slack works every time. We routinely install it on Pentium 90-133
cpus with 32 MB of memory, 1024k video and 500-1000 MB hard drives. 

As a window manager we've had good luck with IceWM. It is very configurable
and has other advantages on both low resource PCs and k12ltsp networks.

Tom

At 06:19 PM 3/5/03 -0800, you wrote:
>I've only been on the mailing list a couple of days.  Has anyone done
>(or is planning) an implementation of k12ltsp in a non-profit
>environment?
>
>I'm working with a local YMCA to put a server and about 10 terminals in,
>replacing old W95 machines (which might serve nicely as terminals). 
>They will be almost strictly email and office applications (OpenOffice
>stuff).  Should be a good match to k12ltsp. If it works well, we'll
>expand it to cover the other two YMCA's in the area.
>
>Orv
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Tom
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