[Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

[LinuXpert Academy]

>Recently,
>I obtained the permission to install free Oses in 3 systems in my Lab. I am
>planning
>to go ahead with a Fedora 10. in 2 systems and possibly OpenSolaris 08-11 on
>1.
>(I also gave Lenny, Scientific Linux and CentOS a thought since they are
>rock solid. But
>I doubt if we need such a Rock Solid distro where kids might want the latest
>toys.
>Also Debian Squeeze is a choice which I have not ruled out yet.)
>
>Given that 10 out of 10 (:P) machines are using more cycles battling viruses
>and trojans
>on the current Windows XP install, I feel that this will be a welcome break.
>Also, it will
>give some students of the current pre-final year to embrace a F/OSS final
>year project.
>
>I am planning on the current software configuration (The systems are P4 3.0
>GHz machines
>with 512 mb RAM)
>

Hi,

Our FOSS Lab Server might help you to implement a FOSS network in your college.

It's a preconfigured server (not big enough and looks slim, people often told me, looks like a DVD player) to remotely install any of the community distros like

Fedora-10 for i386 (nearly 20 GB of fedora repository + rpmfusion) + 15 GB of source code of Fedora-10
Debian Lenny 5.0 for i386 (latest stable version nearly 20 GB) + 18 Gb of source code as 4 ISO's
OpenSUSE 11.1 for i386, x86-64
Mandriva 2009 for i386, x86-64
CentOS 5.2 for i386, x86-64
K12Linux Based on Fedora-10, Fedora-9
Ubuntu 8.10 for i386, x86-64
FreeBSD 7.1 for i386
NetBSD 4.0 for i386 and much more
TLDP (Full website) + Linux Gazette online magazine
All GNU Documentations (more than 1 GB)
Linux Kernel source code (Historic version 0.01 to 2.6.28.7 - the latest): 27 GB
Windows based Free / Open Source Softwares (Nearly 12 GB)
http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/winfoss.pdf
Small Linux distros (like, smoothwall, ipcop, thinstation, openfiler, freenas and several others)

The overall collection of latest distros comes around more than 300 GB.

We have installed Fedora-10 distro in the following colleges recently using our FOSS Lab Server which is being provided free for one day while conducting FOSS workshops.

Easwari Engineering Colleges, Chennai  - Fedora-10: 65 computers, CentOS: 30 computers
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi: Fedora-10: 140 computers (installed in just 6 hours)
Hindustan Engineering College, Padur: Fedora-10: Nearly 70 computers
Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram,: Fedora-10 about 60 Computers
Krishnasamy Engineering College, Cuddalore: Fedora-10 in 30 computers

The complete Fedora-10 repository with rpmfusion is provided and setup (in their own servers/machines) in all the above colleges.

If any colleges in Tamilnadu (engg./arts, science/polytechnics) willing to setup FOSS lab, we can provide our FOSS lab server free-of-cost for one day, were they can install around 200 machines in a day.  

If any colleges interested, pl. write to linuxbaskar at gmail.com / opensource at vsnl.net

Regards

S. Baskar
CEO/LinuXpert Systems
Chennai.