knoppix in school

[Dave_Bechtel]

--There are some out there. Most of the later ones were VESA, but beyond the 486-DX2-66(? IIRC) they started doing some 486 PCI/ISA mommybopards. I saw which way the wind was blowing when the Pentiums came out, and successfully predicted that VESA would die out and be replaced with PCI.

I'd like to see a PCI 486 mobo. Mine only does ISA. A 2meg ISA video card would be nice too.

[orang55]

Flipside: Geometer's Sketchpad is a MUCH better application than its linux counterparts from the last time I used KGeo. Of course, the new version bundled with 3.2 looks pretty nice, but still not on-par with the sketchpad.

[VeeDubb]

You are right about GSP. I have the newest version and it's great. Unfortunately this is a VERY low income school and the after-school program I teach at runs an absolute shoe-string.

If anybody else has followed this, I have found that I can get xfce to boot and Kgeo works reasonably well. It takes about 3minutes just to load the program, but it works fine once it's up. I've also found that Kstars works. It however, takes about 15minutes to load and crashes if you try to change the time or location. But that's okay. Kgeo was the important one.

Are there any other cheatcodes that would reduce the amount of ram used, or some way to uickly unload anything that isn't sytem critical?

[A. Jorge Garcia]

Take a look at the Linux Terminal Server Project at:
http://k12ltsp.org/contents.html

Also take a look at Linux on ITX based boards:
http://mini-itx.com/store/

How about setting up a classroom with the Knoppix Terminal Server?

TIA,