[MACEP] K12EdCom.org Announcement

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Sat Jun 4 14:31:18 PDT 2005


On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Paul Nelson wrote:

> Randy Cummings wrote:
>
>> Paul, what's your take on Novell's new Linux Desktop
>> http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/
>> 
> I think it's great. This is a good path for districts who may need the 
> additional support Novell can supply.  Novell now actually supplies a turnkey 
> K12Ltsp solution for desktops. You can even buy your thin-clients from them.
>
> The desktop is actually running Gnome and now even KDE is a choice. So the 
> user is using the same desktop as the standard K12LTSP install.
>
> ;-) Paul
>

Here are a couple direct links:

http://www.novell.com/industries/education/k12.html?sourceidint=hp_a3_novellumen
http://www.novell.com/partnerguide/product/102156.html
http://www.novell.com/collateral/4680888/4680888.pdf


I have a good working relationship with the Lumen developers. They did
the heavy lifting for using old Macs as LTSP terminals that is included
in the latest K12LTSP. MESD provided a FTP mirror for them when this was
in development.

-Eric


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