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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=875220414-14082007>Please
post all replies to the list as I am sure several of us are interested as
well.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=875220414-14082007>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>Dan Will<BR>Technology Supervisor<BR>Meigs County District
Public Library<BR>willda@oplin.org<BR>740.992.5813<BR>740.992.6140
(fax)<BR><BR>The difference between fiction and reality?<BR>Fiction has to make
sense.<BR>Tom Clancy<BR></FONT></P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> oplintech-bounces@oplin.org
[mailto:oplintech-bounces@oplin.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Chip
Kruthoffer<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 13, 2007 2:34 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
oplintech@oplin.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [OPLINTECH] Edubuntu and
LTSP<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>We are looking to <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.edubuntu.org/" target=_blank>Edubuntu </A>and <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.ltsp.org/" target=_blank>LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
Project)</A> as a way to reuse old hardware (of which we have a lot!) in 2008.
<BR><BR>I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has had success with this in
a real-world, public setting. <BR><BR>I'm especially interested in learning
how you are locking Firefox as a kiosk, client/server ratios, server
performance over a WAN, "real life" server requirements, if you are using any
sort of computer reservation/time management software with Linux, patron
reactions, and/or anything else related to this you'd like to share. <BR><BR>I
have watched Jim Mann's (<SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">oldcomputermann</SPAN>'s) <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=oldcomputermann&p=r"
target=_blank>YouTube vids</A>.<BR><BR>At a minimum, we'd like to replace our
many "catalog-only" PCs with Edubuntu-based Firefox kiosks in 2008. I have an
Edubuntu 7.04 server up and running and am booting clients to it via PXE.
Pretty exciting stuff, but I'm a "noob" to most of this. Success stories
(or cautionary tales) welcome!<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR clear=all> <BR>Chip
Kruthoffer, Head of Systems<BR>Lane Public Library ~ <A
href="http://www.lanepl.org">http://www.lanepl.org</A><BR>1396 University
Blvd. (Admin. Center)<BR>Hamilton, Ohio 45011<BR>Phone: (513) 785-2706 ~ Fax:
(513) 894-6558<BR>Email: c <dot> kruthoffer <at> lanepl
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