Novell now offers an official linux client that works really well. I beta tested it at work and now use it on a regular basis, the only catch is that you need SuSE or NLD, but you may or may not be able to hack it to work with Gentoo (if you do I would like to know, cus i prefer Gentoo over SuSE). I have found that it has better performance than the open source alternatives and it reads your log in scripts as well. You can find the linux client at http://download.novell.com./ This is the best way to solve your problem.
I agree, I work in the my schools IT department and I am a student. Everyday I deal with teachers who think that computers should just be used as a tool for research and to make slideshows, but really the goal of the IT dept. in my district is to supplement the teaching done by the teachers, this has worked in some cases, but increasingly the district has hired some bad teachers(as may be evedent(sp) by my poor spelling and grammer). These teachers just give out big research projects to students, but the students are not using there brains to research most of the material the librarians have a reasearch page for all of the classes that are doing projects. This is ment to help guide the students, but most abuse the privalge and just use that information, thus creating the same papers over and over again. In my district computers are rarely used to take away from math and science, but at the school I goto we those subjects are the strongest. In the time that I have worked for the IT dept. I have seen some improvement in all of the subjects, but new english and social science teachers need to use technology as a useful tool, but not as a teacher or maybe the district should evaluate the new teachers better. Im sorry to rant, but those are just my two cents.
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Novell now offers an official linux client that works really well. I beta tested it at work and now use it on a regular basis, the only catch is that you need SuSE or NLD, but you may or may not be able to hack it to work with Gentoo (if you do I would like to know, cus i prefer Gentoo over SuSE). I have found that it has better performance than the open source alternatives and it reads your log in scripts as well. You can find the linux client at http://download.novell.com./ This is the best way to solve your problem.
I agree, I work in the my schools IT department and I am a student. Everyday I deal with teachers who think that computers should just be used as a tool for research and to make slideshows, but really the goal of the IT dept. in my district is to supplement the teaching done by the teachers, this has worked in some cases, but increasingly the district has hired some bad teachers(as may be evedent(sp) by my poor spelling and grammer). These teachers just give out big research projects to students, but the students are not using there brains to research most of the material the librarians have a reasearch page for all of the classes that are doing projects. This is ment to help guide the students, but most abuse the privalge and just use that information, thus creating the same papers over and over again.
In my district computers are rarely used to take away from math and science, but at the school I goto we those subjects are the strongest. In the time that I have worked for the IT dept. I have seen some improvement in all of the subjects, but new english and social science teachers need to use technology as a useful tool, but not as a teacher or maybe the district should evaluate the new teachers better.
Im sorry to rant, but those are just my two cents.