FOSS for Education

Prof. J. A. BhavsarGroup Head (I.T.)

ITM Business School.Navi Mumbai, India,jbhavsar@itm.edu13th March, 2009.

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ITM Group• ITM Group was founded by Dr. P. V. Ramana in 1991

and has its corporate office in Navi Mumbai.• We are predominantly into Post Graduate

Management education and offer a variety of programs from four centers located in Navi Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Warangal.

• We offer Management Programs for Working Executives from 6 Executive Education Centers (EECs) in Mumbai

• We also offer programs in Hotel Management and Health Sciences.

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Why Open Source?• Robust• Secure• Adaptable• Free to download• Access to source code• Freedom of choice – No vendor lock-in• Inclusive support for open standards• A Lower TCO – Zero Capex on Software

ITM’s Network Servers are located in two server rooms, located diagonally across the campus.

The server rooms house the switch racks and servers.

The two rooms are connected by a fiber optic backbone.

Proxy ServersFedora Core 8Kernel 2.6.23.1-42Squid-2.6.16-2Apache - httpd-2.2.6-3Sarg-2.2.3.1-1.el5.rfNtop-3.2Shoreline Firewall-4.0.9-2Webmin-1.380

Two leased lines for Staff

Two leased lines for Students

Applications on Staff machinesFedora Core 8Linux Kernel 2.6.23.1-42.FC8Firefox-2.0.0.8Thunderbird-2.0.0.14, Openoffice-3Pidgin-devel-2.2.2-1Stardict-dic-en.Adobe Reader8, kpdf-0.5.8 &kghostview-3.5.8-7Sunbird, VLC Player, Mplayer, Gimp, etc.

Wi-Fi Access PointsConnected to a

separate network

Over 200 Staff machines incl. of

CUPS servers

Over 500 Laptops use the Wi-Fi network

LTSP ServersFC5 Kernel 2.6.15LTSP v4.2Webmin-1.380

DNS & DHCP ServersFC3 with Bind -9.2.4-2Dhcp-3.0

LDAP ServerFC5 n Openldap 2.3.19-4httpd-2.2.0 for GUI

Data X-change ServerFC9 with Samba-3.0

Intranet Serverhttpd-2.2.0

RadiusServer (AAA)FC8 with Kernel 2.6.23.1-42.FC8Freeradius-1.1.7-3.1Apache httpd-2.2.6-3MySql-5.0.45Dialup_admin-1.62Php-5.2.4-3

Data Backup ServerOS: FreeNAS 0.68Configured as Raid 1

ERP Test ServerFC8 Kernel 2.6.23.1-42.FC8Apache httpd-2.2.6-3Tomcat-5.5PostgreSQL-8.2.5j2re1.4.2_06jdk1.5.0_02

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OSS for Thick Clients n Laptops• Operating System: Linux (Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu)• Office Apps: Open Office, Thunderbird, PDF Writers• Image Processing: GIMP, XNView• Audio Processing: Audacity, MPlayer• Video Processing: VLC Player, Miro• Audio & Video Chat: Pidgin, Skype• Rendering: Blender• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL• Programming: C, C++, Php, Python, etc.• Servers: Apache, JBoss

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Our Future Plans

• Moodle• Open VPN• Virtualization (Xen, Virtualbox)• Clustering (Cluster)• VoIP (Asterisk)• Remote Maintenance (Putty)

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The Takeaway

It is our belief that this model can easily be adopted by any educational institute with a little initiative and support. This model is equally suitable for any small or medium enterprise.

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jbhavsar@itm.edu