[OPLINTECH] New release for openSUSE Education

Fri Dec 11 11:28:49 EST 2009

Good suggestions and discussion in general all.

Jim, I am a little confused what exactly is FOSS as far as Userful's product
is concerned, but I will take a closer look next week.

Are you actually using it with PaperCut or CUPS?

thanks

Eric Maynard
Head of Information Technology,
Holmes County District Public Library
Millersburg, OH  44654
Email [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 Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Mann, James H. <JMann at gcpl.lib.oh.us>wrote:

>  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
>
> "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
>
> "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]
> 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> 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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