[Tfug] Waste-Not Warehouse - was(Computer Recycling)

[Mike Martinet]

(Sorry, forgot to change the subject line in previous reply... )

It sounds like your technology director has an agenda.

I don't hold out much hope for you being able to change this guy's mind
unless he can't get the money.  I'd love to be involved in a project
which refurbished older machines with Linux and/or set up a Linux
Terminal Server project.

Let me know what happens.


MjM

> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 07:43:41 -0700 (MST)
> From: "Ammon Lauritzen" <ammon at simud.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Waste-Not Warehouse - was(Computer Recycling)
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
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> I work at a high school in Amphitheater district. Our new technology
> director has made it clear that he wants to move in a direction that is
> completely the opposite of our current environment. The end result would
> be a complete Windows environment (servers migrate from Netware 6 &
> Linux to Win Server 2003), and since the PII/233 HP desktops in the
> majority of the classrooms and administrative locations won't support a
> newer MS OS(4 Gb. HD, speed, cost of new license beyond Win95), his idea
> is to simply plop down a new HP box with Win XP Pro, Office 2003. We're
> talking 70-75% of 4,500 PCs in one fell swoop! Major $$$
> 
> I would love to see all the HP PII/233 systems changed over to something
> like Mandrake with OpenOffice.org 1.1, Mozilla, you name it. I think
> there would be great gnashing of teeth from the teachers' classrooms --
> they are very stubborn and resistant to change. Plus, major change to
> the day-to-day workings of administration: student information systems
> software is decidedly MS-centric. It's a hard sell. But, if Apache
> Junction School District can go Open Source to the desktop, I'd say go
> for it!
> 
> > I'd hate to see what XP does to it...
> We couldn't run Office XP on our existing Win95 HP PII/233 boxes--Office
> XP requires Win 98 and the disk space requirements wouldn't leave much
> left over. Running XP OS is out of the question--these boxes crawl now
> with Win95.
> 
> > -- 
> > Ammon Lauritzen
> > ammon at simud.org
> 
> -*-Bill
> 
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