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Linux in High School Labs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the beehive-state dept.

lexbaby writes "The Salt Lake Tribune has a story about how Logan High School (Logan, Utah) is using Linux in their student programming lab. The main use is for robotics. There is the old discussion about if Linux is truly cheaper to operate in the long run. Is Linux a legitimate solution to school districts facing a financial crunch?" I hope some of the students involved post pictures of the robots they're building in class.

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  1. Quote from the article: by Genghis+Troll · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We've been talking about doing this for some time, so we just decided to drive off the cliff."

  2. When I was in school... by Fammy2000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I was in high school we programmed on MS-DOS (both ways in the snow!)

    Some command-line adventures would be good for kids these days.

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    If I had something intelligent to say, I would have said it.
    1. Re:When I was in school... by Monkelectric · · Score: 3, Funny
      Do you go to my school? RKHS?

      "yes, i was planning on sitting here listening to emo and crying all day, thank you very much"

      Finally!! The guy with the dumbest sig *ever* admits what i've suspected all along, he's a teenager.

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      Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  3. Let the students do the work by SaXisT4LiF · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to Linuxworld.com, a Linux operator would earn an annual salary of about $65,000, while a Windows operator might make $45,000 -- costs a school district would bear.

    I would have gladly managed a Linux network at my high school just to get out of class every now and then, and I even had the skills to do so.

    Then again, I wouldn't have gotten out of as many classes as I did fixing the computers running windows...

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  4. audit difficulty by 1nv4d3r · · Score: 5, Funny

    The technicians have to match up all the computers with a license number for each piece of software that is installed. This becomes even more difficult when computers are donated with unregistered software already installed.

    I like that wording. Not 'impossible' to produce licenses for pirated software. Just 'more difficult' than if you are legal. This is exactly the kind of "can-do" attitude that the youth of America needs as an example. Don't let that 5GB of pr0n your girlfriend found drag you down! It's simply 'harder' to explain than if it weren't there.