[aclug-L] Re: I have a dream

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

That would be good marketing idea.  Many of the schools are looking for 
a long term solution, they need to be reassured that people will still 
be around to help them when problems happen.

Denis Medvedev wrote:

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>But who will do that? May be 
>to organize a free seminar for school teachers by
>ACLUG and provide small advertisements in schools?
>--- Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>It's a different way of networking and many of the
>>IT people think that 
>>it is "too old-fashioned" way of networking.  They
>>don't realize that 
>>this is the linux method of 'terminal server' that
>>the M$ IT staff are 
>>in a buzz about.  Many of the M$ IT people think
>>that its the best 
>>invention since sliced bread, unix has been doing
>>this for a long, long 
>>time.  One doctor office that I know of is going
>>back to the unix 
>>diskless workstations because the "windows
>>workstations are just too 
>>unstable".  ~Anne
>>
>>Jeff Vian wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Few teachers know how to use Windows PCs.  Who's
>>>>>
>>going to pay to train them
>>
>>>>>to use and teach with Linux?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>----- 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>>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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