This case study describes the design, installation, and maintenance of a small, Linux-based computer lab consisting of a console-server and four thin-client terminals at Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The project further involved the development of a 12-hour course in basic Linux system administration and its presentation to a self-selected group of high school students. Despite some early difficulties with the high school's hardware, the lab was successfully installed and remained in place with little call for maintenance throughout the fall. The course was taught during these months to seven students. Although the project was not without setbacks and minor failures, each of these suggested not overall deficiency, but a way in which such a project could be more profitably deployed n an enterprise, rather than an experimental, setting
