AZ Students : A linux solution?

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Gary Nichols wrote:
> 
> Alan,  good luck on your project and please keep us PLUG'ers posted on
> your progress.  Your home sounds like the perfect test bed for this
> concept.  :-)  I was thinking of doing something similar for my girls
> but I can't get them off the computers long enough to do a reconfig.
> :-)  I'm still wondering why my 13-year old is thumbing through my
> vi/bash books.... *grin*  Ok, I know why.  hehehe  She's living with a
> linux geek.
> 
> Anyone else thinking of trying this?

I burned the CDs in July but I'm still waiting for the mythical Free
Time to try it :-)

I don't have the spare hardware at home, and haven't built it a firewall
to live behind at work.  I'm hoping to stumble across a "NFS for the
paranoid mini-HOWTO".

Steve

> 
> On Sun, 2001-09-02 at 16:54, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > k12ltsp.org looks like a great project even for my home.  My oldest has hit
> > Jr. High school now and conflicts to get computer access are increasing.
> > This will only get worse as the siblings get older.  I was not looking
> > forward to shelling out $$ for lots of extra computers but using this I could
> > minimize the cost of hardware and software and everyone, conceivably, could
> > have their own computer.
> >
> > Anyway, I now have the ISOs for this project burned.  I will be happy to
> > bring them to the meeting on the 13th for anyone to copy.  I must get these
> > CDs back though.  I don't have enough room to keep the ISOs on my computer.
> > Who would have thought a 12GB drive would be too small some day.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > On Friday 31 August 2001 09:21 am, you wrote:
> > > I'm waiting for calls back from Sun AND Redhat regarding support for our
> > > getting OS/Free software in schools.  Redhat's CEO has a special
> > > interest in what we are trying to do here, and he's pushing this
> > > project:
> > >
> > > http://www.k12ltsp.org/
> > >
> > >
> > > Comments, please?