[LUAU] new k12ltsp lab

[Ben Beeson]

Eric,

	Wow! way to go!

Good luck,

Ben 

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:41, Eric Brown wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I thought I'd share with you a successful k12ltsp story from the mainland.  
> I was inspired by the HOSEF's work in Hawaii after reading an article about 
> them on Slashdot a few weeks ago.
> 
> I'm a math and web design teacher in Keokuk, IA.  I was promised 20 new 
> computers for this school year, but by the time the year started, I was 
> stuck with my 20 Pentium 233MHz, 64 MB Ram (they'll only take 96), running 
> Windows 95.  If a student went to just one wrong site, the machine was 
> filled with spyware and slowed to a halt.  Most classes, students spent 
> waiting for the computer to crank along.
> 
> I reasearched the idea like mad.  I read everything on K12LTSP, subscribed 
> to this list, and read over HOSEF's website.  I shopped on E-Bay, and found 
> a Quad Pentium III Xenon 550 MHz with 1 GB RAM that I picked up for just 
> under $500 including shipping.  I spent all last week setting up the server 
> (it really only took that long due to a hardware conflict that I finally 
> resolved).  Yesterday, with the help of my students, I've got 18 machines 
> running off of the server.  18 run only a little slower than one machine, 
> and even fully loaded, the machines are running so much better than Windows 
> 95.  I was afraid that 1gb ram wouldn't do the job.  I brought the principal 
> down, and he's willing to reimburse me for the server, as well as purchase 
> more ram (I'm hoping to get my machine up to 4gb).
> 
> I plan to have details and pictures up on a web site soon.
> 
> Thank you so much HOSEF for helping me find working machines, and helping me 
> spread the word of open source.
> 
> Eric Brown
> Keokuk High School
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