Hi All,
Kannur Achieved a unique feat by implementing very cost
effective and economicaly sustainalbe( the least expensive
approach known sofar!!)computer education facilities for school
children. Children of 49 Govt. schools in Kannur parliamentary
constituency will now have access to their own computer facilities
running on GNU/Linux Operating sysytem packed with the latest GNU
free softwares.The computer facilities are being setup at schools
and the first facility setup at Valapatnam Govt Scholl will be
inagurated by Shri A P Abdullakutty, Hon. M P ( Member of
Parliamnet) of Kannur at 10 A M on 14- Jan 03.
The resource for the project comes from the Constituency
Development Fund of Kannur M P Shri A P Abdullakutty and is being
implented by Keltron who provided the hardware facilities. The
Software solution and support is provided by Swatantra Software
Solutions & Support( S2S2),at Kannur who implented the cost
effective LTSP( Linux Terminal Server) solution. The computer
facility include One P4 Sever and many diskless workstation using
etherboot to load Redhat 8 Operating system. The other GNU
software package include, Openoffice, multimdedia, programming
tools, and many applets for educational use( physics, chemistry
maths etc.) all installed using GLUE CD.
Regards
Sujeevan
S2S2, Kannur