Holden Lane High School

From Schoolforge-UK

Location: Stoke On Trent (Midlands) UK School Info: Ages 11-16, ~2000

Project Manager: John Dooley, lastword at ntlworld.com

Describe your K12-LTSP installation: Server will be ~1ghz, 256- 512mb (depends on mem prices), hd 20-60gb (hardly any price difference at computer fair). Typical terminals will be of pentium range, s3 video cards.

Outline the costs of installation: Work stations FROM other school which were disposed of are being reused (won't they be pleased when they see this). Server approx £300 with some reused parts. Hub and all wires provided.

Comment on migration to Linux based desktop applications: This system is not yet in place in the school, but is in place at one of the maths teachers homes where we are trial running its capabilities on 10 workstations. So far so good, simply amazing compared to Cyrix terminal (windows) when testing internet speeds/ file system etc. Won't be long b4 maths department segments itself away FROM main network and becomes a rouge network ;)

(Case Study taken FROM K12ltsp.org - John Ingleby)