Linux Journal: Linux from Kindergarten to High School

“As the bell rings to begin class at Greater Houlton Christian
Academy, enthusiastic students sit down at their shiny, new
computer workstations. In one corner, the red cabinet housing the
server hums quietly as two stuffed penguins look on fondly from
their perch. Other penguins keep watch from different locations as
the students enter their user names and passwords to access their
accounts. Ask a student who ‘Tux’ is, and he or she will point to
the large penguin painted on the front wall of the computer lab and
say, ‘He’s the Linux penguin!’ About this time KDE has loaded, and
young boys and girls are opening the application they need for
class as easily as kicking a ball.

“Now for a little history. Greater Houlton Christian Academy
(GHCA) is a private school and nonprofit organization in Maine. As
such, it does not have the same access to funding as the public
school system. As the computer science teacher and system
administrator, this means I have to be creative about providing our
students with computer technology while working with a tight
budget. In the past I relied on area businesses and generous
individuals to donate their used computers. While these donations
were a great blessing to us, they were a temporary solution at
best…”

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