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A Computer Lab with No Windows, Part I (Linux Journal)

[Posted February 18, 2004 by corbet]

The Linux Journal reports from Sisler High School (in Manitoba) on the use of the Linux Terminal Server Project distribution to equip student labs. "Public school systems always are underfunded, and because we are using taxpayers' money, we have the responsibility to get the most for our money. By using a Linux terminal server with cheap, 'obsolete' thin clients, I have been able to deliver many computer courses that are fully compatible with if not better than what teachers using Microsoft Windows are offering. With the money saved on a Linux terminal server lab, the school can fund other subject areas."

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Posted Feb 19, 2004 16:05 UTC (Thu) by spudbeach (guest, #5837) [Link]

As a sometimes substitute teacher, I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I see a sign on the wall of the computer lab "Anybody changing any system settings will be suspended". I laugh because a simple shift to an inherently mulit-user system would make that impossible. I cry because of all the kids that are hurt by the system administrator's incompetence.

Kudos to any school sysadmin with the guts to make things right.

Steve Beach