[aclug-L] Re: I have a dream

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anne McCadden wrote:

>You are very right and the school districts are not wanting to pay a lot 
>of money to get them trained.  The schools use 'Policy  Editor' in 
>windows to lock the computers down and restrict kids from doing all 
>kinds of things with the computers.  Wouldn't locking down the computer 
>be easier in linux?  ~Anne
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It would be locked down by default as long as they were not using the 
root account.

The comment about training also applies to Windows users.  They still 
need an administrator that can do more than turn on the machine.  In 
sites that have switched to Linux the administration/maintenance cost 
has mostly gone down AFAIK.

Easy to  set up something like NIS for the account management and thus 
have a single point of administration for the users.   Also could use 
network booting so thin clients would work and have minimal 
software/hardware on the  workstation.

Use an X server on the master server and an X client on the workstation 
so the user still has X Windows applications available. With 
standardized hardware it becomes almost PNP at the workstation level, 
not just at the device level.

>Jonathan Hall wrote:
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>>Few teachers know how to use Windows PCs.  Who's going to pay to train them
>>to use and teach with Linux?
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "jeffrey l koehn" <caveman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 5:52 PM
>>Subject: [aclug-L] I have a dream
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>>>Someone with Power needs to say this,
>>>"One State of the Art Linux Computer equipped
>>>with all OS software,
>>>Documentation, specs, along with Linux books, etc
>>>in every school in the state of Kansas"
>>>and then act on it.
>>>Wouldn't this be a lot cheaper
>>>than taking Microsoft to court
>>>and also give kids a chance
>>>at creating an open mind?
>>>
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