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Toronto high school expels Linux lab (ITBusiness.ca)

Posted Jul 7, 2006 19:12 UTC (Fri) by flashydave (subscriber, #29267)
Parent article: Toronto high school expels Linux lab (ITBusiness.ca)

Given the length of time it takes to install said OS and get all the security updates downloaded I'm seriously impressed that it was completed in a lunch time - or do the Canadians just take rather long lunches?.......

...Ah I missed the point - all those reboots and updates are actually an essential part of the curriculum for today's children getting them prepared for the real world. Running Linux based systems, whilst being a good thing from our perspective, would give them a distorted view of what you have to do in a typical office environment!

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Toronto high school expels Linux lab (ITBusiness.ca)

Posted Jul 7, 2006 20:32 UTC (Fri) by rcbixler (guest, #11917) [Link]

From the wording in the story that the Linux systems were "removed", it
sounds like they just swapped hardware. So probably Windows was
pre-loaded on the replacement hardware. An alternative explanation is
that the administrators ghosted a Windows image with the latest security
updates applied over all of the Linux installations. Either way, I have
to agree with the other remarks that this whole process from conception to
implementation seems to have been done in a petty way.

Toronto high school expels Linux lab (ITBusiness.ca)

Posted Jul 7, 2006 20:57 UTC (Fri) by meffie (guest, #3120) [Link]

Mr. Montgomery, the educator that was running the lab, has a blog at http://cdneducation.blogspot.com/. He writes the machines were replaced, and it was a down-grade to add insult to injury,

> Apparently, the linux machines have been replaced with old
> machines, based on CTMI/Windows 2000 computers from room 225.

Also, there is an interview of Mr. Montgomery at http://www.cluecan.ca/node/307