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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. Linux in schools by absurdhero · · Score: 5, Informative

    We setup linux in one of our labs using old computers that otherwise were useless. Using ltsp [ltsp.org], we managed to make usable workstations for word processing and internet access. Based on our experience, linux definitely was cheaper than the expensive windows terminals and citrix licenses.

  2. YES!!! by Limburgher · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also check out The Linux Terminal Server Project K-12, a cool project devoted to this sort of thing.

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  3. Linux in labs by snack-a-lot · · Score: 5, Informative

    We use Linux in the robots labs at my University's CS department. Because it's robotics we're talking about here, the cost savings aren't significant as the hardware is much more expensive than the software, ratio-wise. The benefit of using Linux is its 'hackability'.

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  4. Becoming quite common.. by Aliencow · · Score: 5, Informative

    The GHCA (Greater Houlton Christian Academy) has a nice Linux based lab too. They say they saved a lot of money doing it this way, which seems pretty obvious... Their webpage is here