My friend and I are campaigning at our school for them to change from MS to a linux OS, if not the whole school then at least a dedicated "linux lab" (unfortunately I know some programs used are Win-only).

We're campaigning on security, productivity, built-in software/features, etc, that it will integrate seamlessly with the local Novell network, and of course the rock-bottom $0 price tag. However, I am unsure of which distribution to "sell" to the school. I'm pretty sure we're going to go with either Fedora Core, Ubuntu, or SuSE, but we can't make a final decision.

Also, do any of the above distributions (or any others) support a network install ability? This will probably be fairly critical to our decision.

Please feel free to offer any other advice or tips

Thanks!

Offer Ubuntu.. IMHO, it is the most pollished of the three you mentioned - but that is just my opinion

If you want a case to work on, my article might interest you.

As for the network install ability.. What exactly do you mean? Do you mean doing a network install, so that you don't need the full CD to install the distro, but download the rest of the packages off the internet (I don't think you mean this)? Or, shovelling updates from the main server(s) to all the clients? Or something else?
Open-Xchange springs to mind (although I'm not exactly sure what you mean when you say 'network install ability'), so you may want to take a look at that.

HTH,

-jk

by "network install" i mean having the install CD on a server or what have you and installing it on say, 25 machines at once.

interesting article you have indeed, I shall be taking it into consideration.

Edubuntu is geared at education and is meant for a thin-client-to-base-server relation. Although some of it's apps are rather childish, you can always remove them and add the one you think necesary, best of all, it's based on Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is a good choice for you.