Linux Win In Schools

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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[JebOfTheForest]

And for what schools use computers for - primarily the Internet, it's a great solution.

It's a great solution if by "internet" you mean ftp, news, mail, gopher, WAIS, etc. But if you mean "the web", you get...poor plug-in availability, instant lockout from loads of sites due to outdated flash plugin...

Wheee!!! Money rules again!

[ahknight]

Hook 'em young, I guess. Never mind that, like it or not, Windows is a corporate standard that people need to know to get "standard" jobs. This is great for the kids that want to be sysadmins or network admins, even programmers, but for the girl that really just wants a job on the side as a part-time secretary and spend the remaining time with her family (not uncommon, even these days) this is not going to give her the education she needs at all. Hell, even for people that need to do design docs in Word, this won't help. Please, don't feel the urge to mention StarOffice or OpenOffice as we all know they just flat suck.

Good money decision, but really bad in the long run.

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[konichiwa]

Hey that looks like those Magic Eyes things. Except yours says "jack off"

:/

Hmmm

[tristan f.]

You know, if my kid's school ever tried to force him to use Linux, I'd pull him out immediately and send him to private school. Or, failing that, at least a school that can afford a decent operating system. But that's just my opinion.