[OPLINTECH] New release for openSUSE Education

[Mann, James H.]

Sorry for doing this in pieces but had other things on my plate Thursday.
The PCManagement software is called "PreBooK"
http://userful.com/products/pre-book
You couple this with PaperCut:
http://www.papercut.com/

And you get a pretty fair duplication of an Envisionware system.

Neither of these products is free, and with PreBook the price delta to Envisionware is pretty close.

Last year we ran a demo with Groovix, PreBook and PaperCut and got a pretty fair system and we could reserve a computer, surf the net and print without a lot of visual differences in the procedure.

Once again I need to stress that this package isn't a free solution but it does have the advantage of being stable and well supported.

Jim Mann
Technology Coordinator
Greene County Public Library
76 E. Market St.
Xenia Ohio 45385
(937)352-4000 x1210
mailto: jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us<mailto:jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us>
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti.

From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On Behalf Of Mann, James H.
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:27 PM
To: Bob Neeper; Eric Maynard
Cc: Oplintech at Oplin.Org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] New release for openSUSE Education

Half the answer is Paper Cut:

http://www.papercut.com/

Jim Mann
Technology Coordinator
Greene County Public Library
76 E. Market St.
Xenia Ohio 45385
(937)352-4000 x1210
mailto: jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us<mailto:jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us>
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti.

From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On Behalf Of Bob Neeper
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:46 PM
To: Eric Maynard
Cc: Oplintech at Oplin.Org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] New release for openSUSE Education

You might check out CUPS for print management
Ref http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html

One CUPS option is:

Holding Jobs for Later Printing
The -o job-hold-until=when option tells CUPS to delay printing until the "when" time, which can be one of the following:
-o job-hold-until=indefinite; print only after released by the user or an administrator

Also found this link that discusses it.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/cups-print-queue-manager-for-print-server-425896/

I started to make a print server using it but got sidetracked.

Possibly  Jim Mann at GCPL has done this ??


R. W. (Bob) Neeper     Cell: (740)-407-3572

Community Library

44 Burrer Dr.

Sunbury, Oh 43074

Tel:  (740)-965-3901


Eric Maynard wrote:
Man if Envisionware would run on Linux (planned for 2010) or better yet, if there was an open source time/print management package, I'd give this serious consideration.



Eric Maynard
Head of Information Technology,
Holmes County District Public Library
Millersburg, OH  44654
Email [emaynard at holmeslib.org<mailto:emaynard at holmeslib.org>]
Phone [330.674.5972 x.224]
Fax   [330.674.1938]

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently"


On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Bob Neeper <neeperro at oplin.org<mailto:neeperro at oplin.org>> wrote:
openSUES-Edu-Live-li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 11.2 is
now available
Has Gnome Desktop

The 3GB iso may be downloaded , burned to a DVD and run in a PC.
It may also be run directly in a virtual machine, such as VMware Server
allows.
Check the MD5 Hash after downloading to verify a good iso.

After starting, there is a Live Installer desktop icon to install the
system to the hard drive, if desired.
During the install the root partition size must be changed to at least
10GB or the install fails.
This is noted in the instructions.

I did a smooth VMware Server install on a Dell Inspiron Vista Home
Premium laptop.
The machine was set as 2 core, 1GB mem, 20GB HD, 2 NICS, USB

Links
http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Development/Edu-CD    Intro, screen
shots, etc
http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live/Install


It also has LTSP etc to allow thin clients.

--
R. W. (Bob) Neeper     Cell: (740)-407-3572
Community Library
44 Burrer Dr.
Sunbury, Oh 43074
Tel:  (740)-965-3901

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