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