This Saturday, July 17, we, five of us, “opened” a new district of the city, Leninsky, visiting school number 72. Arriving at 9 o'clock in the morning, we found Anton and Ivan [habum] waiting there, then Zhenya [zupb] approached . And when we were already rising from the director's office to the computer science office, Dima [supervisor] arrived.
The computer science room turned out to be small and hot (the air conditioner turned on later did little to help). Our gaze presented 10 workstations of typical configuration (Celeron 1.2GHz, 128Mb RAM, 40Gb HDD, CD-ROM), the teacher's computer - much more powerful (Pentium-IV, 256Mb RAM, DVD), a network.
Students' monitors are obsolete electron-beam, 17 inches, and the teacher has a more modern LCD. Interactive SmartBoard 6xx board, HP LaserJet 1018 laser printer, CanoScan LiDE 30 USB scanner.
I had to quickly go home for the drivers to the interactive whiteboard and additional memory modules for computers, as the director and teacher of computer science agreed with our recommendations that the RAM on all computers should be increased.
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In the process of installation (the second system), the amount of RAM on each computer was doubled (student's - +128, teacher's - + 256MB, respectively). ALT Linux 4.0 (Junior - for student, Master - for teachers) was installed on all computers without any difficulties. The printer was also installed easily and simply (model HP LaserJet 1018 foo2jz), an interactive board - without any problems, as in school No. 64. In the photos you can see how we, together with the director and teacher of computer science, have fun with TuxPaint, drawing fingers on interactive whiteboard. The scanner earned without any additional gestures (checked using the Kooka scanning program included in the KDE kit).
We set up Internet access, installed NetPolice content filtering software, checked on student computers - filters. On the teacher’s computer, they registered the notorious “experimental zone” by downloading and installing the necessary packages from the site spohelp.ru.
Teachers computer science, Elena Vladimirovna, supplied a
set of books from ALT Linux. In a conversation with the school director, Oksana Yurievna, briefly told about the advantages and prospects of using free software based on Linux. Let's hope that the teaching of informatics in this school, from September 1 of the new school year, will already be based on ALT Linux.
Everyone who took part in the installation - many thanks.

Sergey (aka Lamp) from RNDLUG