Harry Sukumar wrote: > > I was wondering if you can help me little bit.... > > I am trying to help (voluntary service) a country side school > (Aboriginal community) in Northern Queensland Australia setup lab > infrastructure, it's a very remote school and they don't have enough > funds to go commercial > > The school has only till grade 6 > > They have 25 machines that was bought out of the government grant but > none of the machines come with windows > > I was asked by the school president to setup lab infrastructure > currently they have Internet (Dynamic) with only two machines connected > > I have asked them to change the plan to Static IP address which I > presume will be done some time this week > > I have decided to go Linux on all the machines including the server > > Could some one please cast some light on how I can carry on with this > project, I am not sure where to start and I am fairly new to Linux and > system administration world > > Currently what's in my mind is to setup fedora on all desktop and > CentOS5 as my server with following services configured If you have one machine that could reasonably act as a server, you could load k12ltsp (a CentOS based distribution that adds the ability to network-boot thin clients and some educational programs) on it and be done. In any case you might find the information here useful: http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page along with their mail list. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com