Re: Debian workstations in a school environment

2006-02-14 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:25 +0100, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a network administrator in a highschool in Belgium. Right now all > our workstations run Windows. There is however a possibility for me to > convert some old machines that have quite some trouble running XP > smoothly to l

Re: Debian workstations in a school environment

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Lale
Philippe De Ryck wrote: Hello, I'm a network administrator in a highschool in Belgium. Right now all our workstations run Windows. There is however a possibility for me to convert some old machines that have quite some trouble running XP smoothly to linux. The problem is however that I'm not th

Re: Debian workstations in a school environment

2006-02-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:25:50AM +0100, Philippe De Ryck wrote: >Hello, > >I'm a network administrator in a highschool in Belgium. Right now all >our workstations run Windows. There is however a possibility for me to >convert some old machines that have quite some trouble running XP >smoothly to

Re: Debian workstations in a school environment

2006-02-14 Thread Daniel A Beller
Philippe, You might want to check out lessdisks. It allows you to set up diskless debian clients. Set up is fairly straight forward and administering a single debian image on the lessdisks server is a lot easier than managing a room full of debian boxes. Applications for workstations are adde