[Glastonbury] next step for st dunstan's

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Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:53:14PM +0100, steve@fractalsoup.org wrote:
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>>well it looks like we will be getting another suite of pc's this year:
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>Good news :)
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>>15 dual boot new machines with multimedia facility ~ here comes 
>>rosegarden / ardour / turnkey / linux audio..video.. ~ :-)
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>Why are you bothering to dual boot that many machines?  Use one machine
>running Win2k as a server with the apps on and then VNC / KDE/Gnome 
>Remote Desktop clients from your thin clients.
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sorry but flowol is a requirement of the dfes control tech module -doh
only runs on windows -
methinks it will run on crossover but  the license for win98 is the same 
price as crossover and other teachers have their own MS/DFES dependancies
(believe me they are everything you think i am)

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>Check video card/sound card compatibility.  Newest Intel chipsets and,
>for example, SATA drives may not be universally supported yet.
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is all looked after
irlcomputers.com ~ leaders of linux in education in the u.k.

>>2 mandrake servers ( what do people have against Mandrake? )
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>Hard to upgrade. Too few useful packages. May go out of business/run out 
>of money in the medium term ... {B-)
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yeah right,
i guess we just give up now...
i have been using it
better than redhat, debian,
runs dvd, audio, video, usb, adsl modems, firewire better/quicker(ie: 
easier to ./configure && make && install) than any other distro i have 
tried yet inc SuSE
have you used this distro recently?
my homepage is http://plf.zarb.org/

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>>15 thin client (possibly dual boot machines with an upgrade)
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>Make everything a solid Linux box first, then consider the amount and
>number of Windows licences you'll need for your "must have" Windows 
>apps.  
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there are plenty of these unfortunately
have you guys looked at the key stage 3 strategy?
it is almost 100% windows XP / office XP dependant.
please wake up to the fact that the system has a deal with MS and that 
it is a *miracle* that we can go it alone for now.
the upgrade phase we are in is phase 2 of 3
the 3rd phase will see a whole suite of high spec pcs just running FLOSS
all i need is a budget to supply the hardware and ther ain't much chance 
of that till next year ~
we have a £100,000 defecit this year.

>Look at the German Interior ministry guidelines for how to 
>move from Windows -> Linux throughout :)
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where are they then?
btw
can you help us then?
it's good to talk
01458 832943 Steve Leonard-Clarke

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>>everthing's gonna be alright...
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>>ofsted cometh,
>>wait till i get to talk to the ict inspector ;-)
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>>regards,
>>s~TV
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>Have fun,
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the road goes ever on

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>Andy
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s~TV

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