I volunteer as a network administrator / hardware guy at my kids K-8 school. I have a RedHat Linux 5.2 server running as a firewall. I have also built a workstation on an IBM PC-350 pentium 60. It works OK but I have a hard time getting the students/teachers to use it. Shutting down improperly (the flip off the power) is a real problem. What it takes is an open mind on the part of the Teachers and Students. My PC-350 workstation works great with netscape and Staroffice, nearly the equivalent of much newer equipment with Windows 95/98. On the topic of your teacher, I feel that teachers must at least attempt to stay current in their fields. If your teacher is unaware of the open source movement, the GPL, or Linux, then this induvidual does not know what is going on in software development and has quite a bit of work to do catching up.
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I volunteer as a network administrator / hardware guy at my kids K-8 school. I have a RedHat Linux 5.2 server running as a firewall. I have also built a workstation on an IBM PC-350 pentium 60. It works OK but I have a hard time getting the students/teachers to use it. Shutting down improperly (the flip off the power) is a real problem. What it takes is an open mind on the part of the Teachers and Students. My PC-350 workstation works great with netscape and Staroffice, nearly the equivalent of much newer equipment with Windows 95/98. On the topic of your teacher, I feel that teachers must at least attempt to stay current in their fields. If your teacher is unaware of the open source movement, the GPL, or Linux, then this induvidual does not know what is going on in software development and has quite a bit of work to do catching up.