The next introduction of Linux School in Nizhny Novgorod

Already in 4 schools, thanks to the School Project of the Nizhny Novgorod Group of Linux Users, classes with School Linux appeared completely filled up and ready for the educational process.

At the request of habrovchan I write "a more detailed description with technical points":


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This time we went in a slightly larger composition than usual. We were 6 terro.

Today's implementation was completely in clone mode. On the most powerful computer, we installed School Linux Junior for the student. We made all the necessary settings, added galleries, added a public key for iTalc. After that, having “cleaned” the configuration files, they packed the entire system into the tar.gz archive. In compressed form, the system has a size of 2.8 GB.

Further, this file on the usb-hard drive went to the rest of the computer in the classroom, where it was unpacked onto the already prepared ext3 partition. After unpacking, it was enough to go into chroot and restore the bootloader with the lilo command. This installation method allows you to deploy the operating system on 10 computers per class in an hour of clean time.

By 2 o'clock most of the work was done. We started setting up the teacher’s computer, not forgetting to refresh ourselves with tea and sandwiches.

The teacher had an HP LaserJet 1020 printer and an HP ScanJet 3800 scanner on the desk.

The scanner is remarkably earned at the School Linux Junior worth running the "Image Scanning Program." Some kind of scanner is noticeable at the moment of starting work with it. But this is a hardware feature of this type of scanner independent of the operating system.

But with the printer had to tinker a bit. In general, all HP LJ p1005, 1018, 1020 class printers and similar cheap options are launched through the HPLIP subsystem with the hp-setup command. But in School Linux, this subsystem is installed without the graphical part, which is why hp-setup does not start correctly. To fix this, simply connect the repositories to install the hplip-gui package. After installing this package, the hp-setup utility starts up perfectly and loads the binary module from the Internet (at this stage, the main thing is to be patient and just wait, the download takes 5..10.10 minutes).

But in the end it turned out that the printer does not have a cartridge and we left our 5 minute attempts to print a test page :)

At the end of the installation, we held a 20-minute demonstration of the system to two teachers of computer science at the school.

• They demonstrated the work of iTalc by managing a class of 10 computers, broadcast their desktop, blocked the desktops :)
• Showed how to work with network folders on the teacher’s computer from school computers
• Demonstrated the work of the Content-Filtering system. We made several characteristic queries "incompatible with the objectives of the educational process." Everything is blocked!

From unpleasant.

The teachers were interested in the creation and operation of presentations in School Linux.

We joyfully said "there is everything here." Run Impress, and it tells us "Error loading template, general error"

According to the results of the error, buig was issued in BugZilla Altlinux

https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23633

From the pleasant - today we had the opportunity to see the contents of the "School Linux" box from ALTs. I can say it costs its 3500r.

• A good school distribution book, including a description of the moodle and wiki learning system.
• A colorful poster with all the main programs included in the distribution.
• 9 disks with distributions (School Linux Master, Junior, Light, server, terminal server, open source distributions for Windows, documentation disc).
• 20 holographic stickers (Ponte, but nice :)
• Well, the paper is smaller - a description of the software included in the box and a license from ALT Linux.

From the most pleasant - we were given a very beautiful thank-you letter!