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Linux Win In Schools

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-to-school-with-tux dept.

Xaleth Nuada wrote to us about a Wired article that talks a school in Colorado choosing Linux over the traditional choices. The reason? Prohibitive costs for licensing, of course. The school's network is maintained by parental volunteers, and thanks to Linux, can be easily maintained remotely. And for what schools use computers for - primarily the Internet, it's a great solution.

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  1. Re:browsers by Aerog · · Score: 2, Funny

    But by "the web" you mean High School, which really just means hundreds of horny, 15-year-old boys trying to download pr0n, and from my experiences, pr0n is pretty much platform-independent.

    Pr0n is pr0n is pr0n.

    On linux or Win or Mac, it's really all the same.

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    - Relativistic? That's barely Newtonian!
  2. Great... by krmt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we're going to have third graders screaming their heads off at each other about the merits of emacs vs. vi and Gnome vs. KDE!

    If you thought the arguments were juvenile and immature before, just wait until those first graders get /. accounts!

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    "I may not have morals, but I have standards."

  3. Re:Good! Now the next steps... by esper · · Score: 2, Funny
    Time for another new moderation option?


    -1 Asked to be modded down