[Fsf-friends] Kannur shows the way

Sujeevan Pullanhiotan Sujeevan Pullanhiotan" <sujeevan_p@rediffmail.com
14 Jan 2003 04:09:36 -0000


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