“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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