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  1. College Linux by Cokelee · · Score: 1 · on Red Hat, SUSE Announce Educational Discounts

    Why not use College Linux?

  2. Re:6th Graders with Laptops. by cioxx · · Score: 1 · on Michigan To Purchase Record 130,000 Laptops
    What OS? It should probably be "Schoolnix" .. a custom distribution of some sort

    you mean College Linux?

    =)
  3. Re:What else are they supposed to do? by paranode · · Score: 1 · on Ballmer Sends Wakeup Call to Staff
    College Linux has also been around for a while too.

    http://www.college.ch/linux/

  4. Re:Students can get along without MS by PyTHON71 · · Score: 1 · on A College Without Microsoft?
    I agree with you for the most part, but the Mac solution will be painfully expensive. How hard is it to slap on your Linux of choice (say, CollegeLinux), onto a $200 workstation that's already been purchased compared to buying a new Mac for four times that?

    Now, for a power-workstation, say the administrative assistant to the president, or the president him/herself, I can see that. But Macs, from the POV of cost, should relatively rare.

    That's not to say that a student couldn't or shouldn't buy their own Mac. It's just that if the institution is footing the bill, they will not be able to afford the cost of replacing hardware associated with a Mac vs. a nice but cheap x86.

    And don't forget: the CS majors will be zorching the native OS anyway, so you might as make it easy on everyone from the start.

    Daniel.

  5. Re:Questions... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on CollegeLinux Released to the Public

    even more fun...

    http://www.college.ch/content.php?link=/Library/We bServer/rkc/Documents/content.php