Linux distro for school

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- Erek Dyskant <erek at nbtsc.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>  My boss recently got the contract to manage the computer labs for a
> school district.  Rigt now they've got 2400 workstations running
> windows, and we're considering converting 50% of the to linux to save on
> lincensing and make administration easier.
>  As you all can imagine, most of what they're doing is just web
> browsing and word processing.
>  I'm wondering if you all have any suggestions for managing a
> large number of linux boxes, and what might be a good distribution to
> use that would be intuitive for Windows users to sit down and use?


One I like for simple uses is beatrix (www.watsky.net) it's a liveCD but
install is the EASIEST I've EVER seen) It by default has a web browser,
Openoffice and GAIM (IM) client, nothing else and it's Gnome based...

It's also one of the smaller liveCD's (230 megs) I'll bring a handful of them
to the meeting on sunday if you want one...

It's easy to keep up to date (debian based) and is based off of ubuuntu (large
repositories of up to date stuff)



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Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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