RE: [seul-edu] School count

["Spurling, Shannon" <shannon@more.net>]

That's the case for many schools. For some reason they want to "Buy the
best" and not pay any one to take care of it. Many times school teachers who
are given the duties to take care of the network end up learning skills that
earn them better pay elsewhere. I see it happen too often.... And they
sometimes leave behind old Redhat boxes that get hacked, or the new admin
doesn't know how to administer. In extreme cases I've talked to new network
admin's that didn't know where the servers were, or what the passwords were,
or even that there is a server. That's another strike for Linux (but it
happens with NT and Novell too) when the administration gets a hold of it.
That's another administrative issue that you have to watch out for.
Somewhere they got the idea that if it's free it can't be good. I had been
thinking about it for a while, and I had been thinking that the Linux
terminal server thing would be the way to go. How well do those SUN Ray
terminals work? Couldn't you use the Linux terminal server stuff to come up
with a good cheap centralized SUN Ray type solution where the teacher could
distribute content from her workstation? This all kind of ties back to that
guy who wants to make an educational distribution. A dummy machine that
works with a terminal server could have an initial cost of less than $200
per machine new. Think of the ways you could recycle old hardware for that?

Shannon Spurling
WAN Engineer -Specialist

MOREnet, Network Services, Core Network
3212 Le Mone Industrial Blvd.
Columbia, MO 65201

Main:(573) 884-7200   Fax:(573)884-6673

shannon@more.net
shannons@ieee.org

-----Original Message-----
From: James Oden [mailto:joden@eworld.wox.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:12 AM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] School count


> 
> I'm aware of two schools in the state of North Carolina.  One of them is
> outside of the Triangle area (where I live)
That would be Lee County Schools in Sanford, NC.  They use Linux for web
servers, mail, and database applications.  Currently there working on giving
every teacher a website for their classrooms.  The funny part is that the 
issues they are having are more political than technological.

Cheers...james