[dot] Tom Chance: C.T. Leung on LTSP and KDE at Sisler High School

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From: Navindra Umanee <navindra at kde.org>
Dept: more-kde-everywhere
Date: Tuesday 23/Mar/2004, @19:52

Tom Chance: C.T. Leung on LTSP and KDE at Sisler High School
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   In a recent [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7418] two
part article [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7419], Linux
Journal [http://www.linuxjournal.com/] documented the transition of
Sisler High School [http://www.sislerhigh.org/] in Manitoba, Canada, to
an LTSP-based desktop.  In this informative interview
[http://www.tomchance.org.uk/writing/leunginterview], Tom Chance
[http://www.tomchance.org.uk/]  follows-up with Mr C.T. Leung on the ups
and downs of the deployment of LTSP and KDE. "The cost saving is huge,
in my case. [...] In my lab, I save $1000 for a copy of Windows NT/2000
server, $200 x 30 copies of Windows XP or equivalent, $1000 x 30 1GHz
pc, $100 x 30 copies of Office, $100 x 30 C++. The total saving is about
$45,000.  However, the greatest saving is confidence!  We are proud to
be the first computer lab in our city doing all kinds of computer
teaching without Windows!" Should be inspiring for other institutions
considering the switch to a Linux-based desktop.