I don't know about other schools but I've managed to gain the trust at mine (a small private high school) to become the network admin. I've even convinced them that linux is the best way to go for things like student email and student web pages. Right now I am in the process of switching all the schools servers (three) to Linux. I would love to run Linux on the workstation as well as the servers but the plain truth of the matter is that not enough kids would no how to use it (in fact I would be just about the only one). So the next step is not to put linux worksations in schools, but to get them into the homes (which is where most kids learn computer stuff anyway... tinkering around with daddy's new Dell).Once more students use it at home THEN we can start integrating linux into the client environment. Until then M$ will dominate the network clients at most schools
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I don't know about other schools but I've managed to gain the trust at mine (a small private high school) to become the network admin. I've even convinced them that linux is the best way to go for things like student email and student web pages. Right now I am in the process of switching all the schools servers (three) to Linux. I would love to run Linux on the workstation as well as the servers but the plain truth of the matter is that not enough kids would no how to use it (in fact I would be just about the only one). So the next step is not to put linux worksations in schools, but to get them into the homes (which is where most kids learn computer stuff anyway... tinkering around with daddy's new Dell).Once more students use it at home THEN we can start integrating linux into the client environment. Until then M$ will dominate the network clients at most schools