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Yes, I called them, but about technical support provided by students, not thin clients. I was told that my school system has a support contract that will be void if any non-certified, non-staff personel touch certain systems. As long as that contract is there, I won't be permitted to change anything about a school computer (Not that I won't do it anyway). As it is, staff will be skeptical of letting a student with in a mile of confidential, "secure" data. So I can't perform an installation of linux. And the staff don't have the skill or time (Yes, I know they would save time in the long run...).

If you have clearly defined steps, please post them at this web site, which is devoted to such subjects. I've had this conversation a few times before, and have detemined that slashdot is not the place. I will be happy to follow them, assuming they keep in mind that I intend to end up with a good reputation.

Perhaps you misunderstand me. There is no technical or monitary barier here. My school is loaded with thin clients that run windows and are not used (execept for hacking practice), and there are students who are willing to manage them. Inertia is largely about understaffing, bad staffing, monitary issues in other places, and (IMHO) people like the "miserable failure" making decisions in X's intrest instead of the students'.

Amen! That needed saying.
I'm posting anonymously because I don't want this post to be modded up. I'm really Students
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