[Gllug] London councils and Unix/Linux

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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:47:51PM -0000, Jackson, Harry wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jim at lateral.net [mailto:jim at lateral.net]
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I don't know if anyone caught the bbc 10 oclock news last 
> > night the gov
> > unveiled it new plan for super IT schools and a school sent a tape in
> > showing the state of there IT dept. Most distressing was the 
> > room full of
> > old PCs donated and bought that were just sitting there doing nothing
> > bcause the school had no where to put them.  Volunteers anyone.
> 
> I would say that now days it is probably as much as a problem getting the
> secure room as the Hardware. I would hate to build an IT suite to see it
> half inched. I would have no qualms helping someone fit a room full of
> hardware or helping provide it but I get extremely frustrated by the red
> tape to get the stuff. My mate helped fit out his wife's school (she's a
> teacher) and was lucky enough to have people interested in doing it. I know
> its the children we are trying to help but as John has said if I got no
> enthusiasm from the teachers quarter then I would be a bit disillusioned by
> the whole "help the schools ethos".
>

How feasable is it to set up a system based on a couple of nice servers
(locked securely) and running a bunch of very cheap X-client machines in
the classroom.

Now I know that people will nick pretty much anything - but could these
classroom machines be low enough spec that school security would be
adequate (and still good enough to work on) ?

-- 

Sean 
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