My high school already uses linux. The entire computer systems lab runs on debian, and the network includes a Cray. It's definitely better than windows - using linux gives students an easy opportunity to work with a supercomputer, and the fact that the system is a linux-based network makes everything easier and faster (as proven by the network covering the rest of the school - all the machines run on windows 98, and the network runs extremely slowly and is very unstable).
Although I'm sure that I'm not introducting anything new here, I just wanted to say that linux does seem to be getting a foothold in high schools. Free, easy, fast...it's definitely here to stay, at least at my school.
Heh, just seems like the usual happened. Things were improved, more ideas were thought up, transistors got smaller, Microsoft got dumber, and linux got better. It doesn't seem like anything really remarkable happened this year that would count as a breakthrough. Next year, maybe?
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My high school already uses linux. The entire computer systems lab runs on debian, and the network includes a Cray. It's definitely better than windows - using linux gives students an easy opportunity to work with a supercomputer, and the fact that the system is a linux-based network makes everything easier and faster (as proven by the network covering the rest of the school - all the machines run on windows 98, and the network runs extremely slowly and is very unstable). Although I'm sure that I'm not introducting anything new here, I just wanted to say that linux does seem to be getting a foothold in high schools. Free, easy, fast...it's definitely here to stay, at least at my school.
Heh, just seems like the usual happened. Things were improved, more ideas were thought up, transistors got smaller, Microsoft got dumber, and linux got better. It doesn't seem like anything really remarkable happened this year that would count as a breakthrough. Next year, maybe?