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  From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
  To  : Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
        Duncan Sayers <duncan@apdata.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:24:10 +0930

Re: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

On Tuesday, 24 April 2001 at 11:14:38 +0930, Dan Shearer wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2001, Andrew Reid wrote:
>
>> I think that from my point of view, Mark Collis and maybe Matthew
>> Geddes', UNIX in the school could significantly benfit the IT
>> Infrastructure.
>
> Another point:  I know that there is a lot of Linux in SA schools already.
> ISPs (some of whom no longer exist!) have been going around installing
> Linux servers for dialup and other services. The school often has no idea
> this has happened, and it often works for years without any problem.

I suppose you'll be interested to read this message, which came in
only a couple of days ago.  The article he's referring to is at
http://www.daemonnews.org/200102/dadvocate.html, specifically the last
paragraph ("Nay-sayers department").

Greg

On Friday, 20 April 2001 at 23:06:05 +0930, Duncan Sayers wrote:
> You will be pleased to know (if you aren't already aware) that the freebsd
> network you referred to at the end of your article at Strathalbyn
> school/community library is part of a larger network that spans the state
> from Ceduna to Mt. Gambier, and most places in between. I was part of the
> project that installed freebsd servers and public access clients to around
> 80 regional libraries throughout the state.  The servers have a 20MB flash
> drive in them, from which the server can rebuilt itself should it detect a
> problem with the hard drive that may have been caused by a dodgy power
> outage (flakey rural power supply being one of the biggest problems that
> had to be overcome).  The public access clients are also running a minimal
> freebsd setup, loading netscape from the server when they reboot. If the
> setup on the clients get messed up, either accidentally, or deliberately
> by the public, the librarians only need to reset the client and it will
> refresh itself.
>
> At ADC (the company I work for), we use freebsd almost exclusively.  Time
> and time again, we are demonstrating how you can make freebsd jump through
> hoops to acheive solutions that are simply impossible to do with the
> surprisingly more popular alternatives.
>
> FreeBSD is alive and well in the state of South Australia.  Nay-sayers be
> damned!
>
> Regards
>
> Duncan Sayers
>


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