Yeah! Load up the shotgun, whack on some tunes; it's killing time.

The Northern Territory Government in Australia have something called the LATIS project (Learning And Technology In Schools) which involved rolling out a Linux server with a satellite based connection to the Internet, and Windows desktop PCs to every school in the state (territory) including the very remote and very small Aboriginal community schools; 190 odd schools in total.

The servers provide file and print through Samba, authenticated web and ftp proxies via squid and the potential of an email address for every member of the school system, all tied together through an LDAP directory (provided by OpenLDAP).

The desktop PCs are, as I said, Windows boxes but the office suite provided is Sun's StarOffice 5.2 (presumably to be upgraded to 6 when it is finalised).

Check out www.latis.net.au for more info.