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  • From: Bob Hassett <bob AT purple.ils.unc.edu>
  • To: internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu
  • Subject: Linux in schools
  • Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:09:47 -0500

Greetings, all:

My name is Bob Hassett and I'm a graduate student in information and library
science at UNC. I confess to some misgivings about my first post to the list
being a pitch, but ...

I'm organizing and directing a project this summer to put a small (10
terminal) Linux-based, thin-client computer lab in Chapel Hill High School.
We're going to make it available to the students beginning in the fall and
encourage any interested instructors to use it however they choose, whether
it be for simple, Web-based research or for teaching programming, networking,
administration, whatever.

Anyway, the school has a number of older PCs to use for terminals. In fact,
one of the project's goals is to help them make use of these older boxes that
are or will soon be gathering dust. What I'm asking is whether anybody here
is interested or knows of anyone who might be interested in donating a
new(er) machine for use as a server. Ideally, it will have at least 512MB of
memory and some fairly non-trivial storage capacity. A tape drive would be
nice, but not essential. And the setup calls for two Ethernet cards.

I know I'm going way out on a limb here but I feel like I'd be foolish not
to. This is an exciting project that will help to make networked computers
available to more students at reduced cost, as well as giving the next
generation of developers valuable experience working in a Unix-like
environment.

In addition, if anyone has suggestions, perspectives, or experiences to
share, please don't hold back. Thanks everybody for your consideration.

---Bob.



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