Hi Aamir Your effort to bring in Open Source into school is quite appreciative. There are few school in Sharjah which uses Linux as desktop , not all but around 50% of total PC are installed with Linux. The IT staff tired out with it first and then they installed at the lab, This was about 6 months back . What I have heard from them is that they do have plans to use Linux for their PBX and CCTV
Another school which name I forgot , They had implemented Linux for their academic purpose , If I am not correct Network Gulf had implemented it Hope to hear from you more about the Linux implementation Thanks Joseph JOhn --- On Fri, 8/5/09, Aamir Sajwani <[email protected]> wrote: From: Aamir Sajwani <[email protected]> Subject: [dubailug] Hello, and Linux at The Westminster School! To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 8 May, 2009, 3:46 AM Hello, everyone.I'm Aamir Sajwani, 19 year old Linux user who's been hooked to Linux ever since I tried out zipslack all those years ago. I'm glad I finally found a LUG in the UAE, and I think that serves as purposeful, brief introduction. For rather useful reading purposes, I'd like to state that it may be likely that Ubuntu may be used in a computer lab or two at The Westminster School next school year, as part of my initiative for improved computer security. I approached the Principal of the school with evidence that I'd been able to retrieve the facebook usernames and passwords of at least 70 students merely by placing a 10 year old keylogger on one of the machines, which spread rather virulently, considering the number of USB memory sticks and data transferred between computers. He was quite concerned about the situation, despite the fact that all computers have Sophos antivirus (lol, sophos) with the latest updates and virus definitions, and yet it could not detect the keylogger. He said he's quite open to the idea of trying out Linux, and was especially pleased to know that it's completely free. Hopefully we'll be seeing Ubuntu in a computer lab as a test run next year. If this goes ahead, would this be the first time a school in the UAE is utilising Linux on the student level? If so, I'd feel rather happy and proud about that :D I think that's enough for now, looking forward to hear from you soon! --AdmiralA P.S.: When's the next LUG meeting, if there is one? And where can I be directed to the details? Own a website.Get an unlimited package.Pay next to nothing. - Yahoo! Edition http://in.business.yahoo.com/
