Re: [seul-edu] School count

[Nicolas Lopez <nick@corbettschool.org>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:19:07PM -0700, Jennifer Dozar wrote:
> How many schools out there actually use linux? at least a linux server? I
> know Mr Lehman's school in Manhattan does. but which other schools do?  

  Well, as Harry McGregor hasn't chimed in yet I'll mention Corbett Elementary
School in Tucson, Arizona (www.corbettschool.org).  We have, um, ~90 PIII
workstations that finally arrived from the district to complement the ~30 P90s
that had made up the lab before.  All run Linux by default, with the support
nightmare that is NT4 as an option on the PIIIs.
  There are also a smattering of older Macs and a small handful of PowerMacs.
And the three PPro/200 servers and LRP firewall.
  The desktops(PIII & P90 alike) come up to a gdm login box with each student
loging in under their own name, and no password for simplicity sake.  Everybody
gets the same IceWM config with a tailored menu.
  Sadly, out software costs have been > $0 due to some odd reading level
testing software, and the NT licenses on the PIIIs, which we had no choice in.

  - Nick Lopez
    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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