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Is Linux Right for Your School?
Jul 1, 2007, 00 :00 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (10512 reads)

(Other stories by Marc Wagner)

"My colleague, Chris Dawson, has written several excellent pieces recently about Linux (mostly about the latest from the Ubuntu family of products but more recently about SuSE) and he has made some excellent points. The question one has to ask though in deciding whether Linux is right for your school is this:

"Does your school's IT department have the expertise to support a robust Linux thin-client model with Linux serving both generic personal productivity applications and Windows or Macintosh-based discipline-specific instructional applications? How about a simpler standalone Linux environment...?"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
>Does your school's IT department ha ...   Does your school's IT Department...   
Simplicissimus
Jul 1, 2007, 01:14:47
 
Is your IT staff capable of securing you ...   What rubbish!   
Joe User
Jul 1, 2007, 11:12:24
 
... that staff at a school be an example ...   Heaven Forbid...   
David F. Skoll
Jul 1, 2007, 14:25:53
 
Agreed. ...   Re: Heaven Forbid...   
Jeff Rollin
Jul 1, 2007, 16:49:04
 
>"...Why is it that schools jumped into  ...   Re: What rubbish!   
cjm
Jul 1, 2007, 18:39:09
 
My kids go to a secondary school which u ...   Linux is right   
ds
Jul 1, 2007, 21:20:32
 
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