Carroll and Mark:
Very impressive. A 5th grade student putting together a diskless
workstation!
http://www.k12ltsp.org/terminal_guide.html
Roman
Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>
> Mark:
> This was the subject of an article at www.salon.com earlier this week.
> MS is running a campaign to make sure that everyone in the known
> universe who is using one of their products has paid for it. Some guy in
> a Philadelphia school had made multiple installs of the same program, MS
> found out about it, and now Gates wants a whole lot of money.
>
> Yes, there are some efforts to use Linux in public schools. A group in
> California unveiled a new system last weekend. It's based on using
> diskless workstations -- either net appliances or converted PC's -- to
> reduce costs and simplify administration. More information can be found
> at www.k12ltsp.org.
>
> Regards,
> Carroll
>
> Mark Johnson wrote:
> >
> > I heard recently (from my wife, can't confirm the specifics)
> > that MS is suing a very poor public school in Philadelphia
> > for making copies of Windows for its students to run in its
> > classrooms. It seems that for such a school (and really any
> > school) that linux would be just a perfect fit.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any elementary and secondary schools
> > using linux? I know many, many colleges are, but I'm more
> > curious to know about other schools.
> >
> > I could imagine all sorts of really cool things that students
> > and teachers could do with linux. I would think that ISPs
> > could donate or discount an internet connection so that the
> > students and teachers could learn about setting up a LAN
> > connected to the internet; bring up some private news and IRC
> > servers for discussing homework; develop virtual web sites to
> > show case student work, syllabuses(sp?), and message boards,
> > etc... They could use the OpenOffice, it would probably be
> > possible for some of them to run linux at home. If people
> > would recycle and donate there old systems to the schools
> > they could have contents for students to win those computers
> > for home. We have a Goodwill Computer works in here in my
> > town with some descent systems available that could easily
> > run linux and even X. (I've heard some parts of the east
> > coast have been having lead problems will old moniters begin
> > tossed out - I shudder to think people are dumping thier
> > computers in dumpsters!!!)
> >
> > It would be really exciting i think -- but maybe I'm too much
> > of a geek. You'd really have to have buy in from the
> > teachers and staff... most likely, except for a few of them,
> > will probably be too terrified of computers in general to
> > even contemplate using linux...I would think local LUGs could
> > train teachers and staff so they could become much more
> > comfortable with the whole thing.
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jeferson Lopes Zacco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:51 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Use of Linux
> > > >
> > > > Speaking seriously now, If I ever get to be a good C/C++
> > > > programmer and ever manage to understand QT libraries and
> > > > whatever it takes to make programs for KDE/Gnome/X than
> > > > I really plan on releasing a ChildDesktop for Linux.
> > > >
> > > What a FANASTIC idea!!!!
> > >
> > >
> > >
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
"su is not the root of your problem
but the start of a new journey"
