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High School Students Develop Linux Imaging and Help Desk Software

Posted by timothy on from the but-did-they-learn-anything dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Pennsylvania school district is going Linux and building an open source high school with the help of student technology apprentices. As part of a 1:1 laptop learning program, 1725 high school students at Penn Manor School District are receiving new laptops running Ubuntu and open source software exclusively. Central to the program is a student help desk where student programmers created a Linux multicast imaging system titled Fast Linux Deployment Toolkit. The district posted pictures of the imaging process in action. Working alongside school IT staff, students also developed help desk software and other programs in support of the 1:1 student laptop program. The student tech apprentices also provide peer support for fellow students."

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  1. Re:GH link by jetole · · Score: 5, Informative

    The correct link is https://github.com/pennmanor/F...

    This is a typo in the story posting and I contacted /. admin to hopefully have them resolve this.

  2. Does this image system do UEFI? Clonezilla does by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Does this image system do UEFI? Clonezilla does

    Clonezilla also can do Multicast as well as PXE and Wake-on-LAN

  3. Re:What about the windows only software? and offic by Thong · · Score: 3, Informative

    For me the problem is always the other way around. Microsoft Office doesn't work well with .od? files.

  4. Re:What about the windows only software? and offic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're going to be summing up to A1195756262959999287362, then you shouldn't be using Calc. Or Excel. Learn a proper programming language for data analysis --- there are great tools in everything from Python to C, plus specialized mathematical/statistical environments like R, Octave, or Maxima. Spreadsheets of any variety are a poor choice for serious work; once you go beyond adding a couple dozen numbers, you'll be wasting more time fighting against the inherent shortcomings of spreadsheets than the learning curve of a proper data analysis framework.