Linux in High School Labs

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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[The Bungi]

I hope some of the students involved post pictures of the robots they're building in class.

Aaaannnd... cue the AC posting a goatse.cx link... action!

Notice high user ID #...

[siskbc]

I've noticed that a lot of the people speaking out pro-M$ tend to have high user ID's, like Mr. Politburo here. Now, this could be indicative of /.'s increasing demographic. Or it could be indicative of some serious, and it would seem, pointless astroturfing going on.

Or am I just paranoid as hell? And if so, is that relevant?

Re:Its about time

[ecchi_0]

I go to a rich white private highschool. I am a freshman in the first class ever of my school's laptop program - every student in my class has their own ibook with OS X. I am literally stunned at the cluelessness of some fellow classmates - for instance, one user, when confronted with long load times on a web page, believes her computer has crashed and takes the battery out and reinserts it to "fix the slowness". This wouldnt be so bad if we were just handed the computers - no way, we were all given "extensive" training (extensive enough to learn how to use Word, back up to the fileserver, fix from crashes, etc). Maybe the leaders of tomorrow know how to use computers, but the idiots of tomorrow sure don't.