Take a look at www.k12ltsp.org. If it's not exactly what you're looking for, it might be a good starting point. Jeff P.S. I seem to be unable to get there right now. Here's a google cache of their home page with some basic information about their project: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:26xXlYXQjbM:www.k12ltsp.org/+k12ltsp&hl=en&lr=lang_en On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Ben Stallings wrote: > When folks on this list first started talking about building our own Linux > distribution, I wondered why the world would need yet another distribution... > but now I've found a reason. > > Last week I sat in on a coworker's presentation in a class > at Washburn High School. The teacher of that class has had to personally get > donated PCs from a prison work program, personally install (pirated) software > on them, personally install keyboard trays on the tables, and then personally > provide tech support, because the school won't do any of it for her. > > The reason she has computers in the classroom in the first place is that she > finds her students learn more and better when asked to do reports as > PowerPoint presentations than when asked to do essays. > > Naturally, in the course of the day the computers' configurations get messed > up. I suggested that Linux would prevent them from doing any real damage, > and she was intrigued, but realistically there's no way she could get over > the learning curve in the few minutes a day she has available. > > So anyway, this is my long-winded way of suggesting that we could make a > distribution for schoolteachers, providing basic functionality for a > classroom environment. --Ben > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >