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[News] Students Who Grow up on Linux Will Demand It at Work

  • Subject: [News] Students Who Grow up on Linux Will Demand It at Work
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:57:00 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Why 2008 will be a bad year for Microsoft’s Ed Tech market share

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| Am I blowing Microsoft’s struggles in Ed Tech out of proportion? It strikes 
| me that, while Microsoft makes its money at the enterprise level, students 
| who use Linux-based machines at school will be far more comfortable using 
| them (and asking for them) when they enter the workforce.   
`----

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1457

"The danger is that Microsoft is using strategic monopolistic pricing in the 
education market, with the government’s assistance, to turn our state
university  systems into private workforce training programs for Microsoft."

                                    --Nathan Newman


Yesterday:

Is Linux Worth the Effort?

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| I've spent the better part of the past 2 weeks banging away on 2 LTSP servers 
| for our school district. I find myself lamenting to those around me, and 
| being an otherwise cranky guy as well. This morning it dawned on me that 
| people probably think I'm having such a hard time because I'm using Linux 
| instead of the "norm" -- but that's just not the case.    
| 
| Tomorrow morning, about 1200 people are going to log into thin clients strewn 
| around the school district here in northern Michigan. I am using K12LTSP as 
| my distribution, because the support is incredible, and it's designed for 
| schools. The problem for me, however, is that Linux is so darn powerful, my 
| users are overwhelmed by it.     
| 
| [...]
| 
| Is it all worth it? Oh, heck yeah. Instead of managing 250 workstations, I'll 
| be managing 2. I like that kind of math. There are still a couple hundred 
| Macintosh computers, and handfuls of Windows PCs -- but I'd like not to think 
| about those for a bit, and bask in my thin client glory.   
`----

http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005992


Related:

Free software in Polish schools

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| Thousands of Polish high school students now have a chance to learn about 
| GNU/Linux and the benefits of using free software as Polish FLOSS foundation 
| together with school headmasters, supported by local authorities organize a 
| series of lectures on free software in education. PolishLinux.org has a 
| report — summary of the first 3 months of the campaign.    
`----

http://polishlinux.org/linux/free-software-in-polish-schools/


Students using PCLinuxOS in Vietnam

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| Finally, I decided to test PCLinuxOS with my students. Wow, amazing. Finally 
| a Linux distro that the majority of my students actually liked using. It ran 
| faster than any of the other Linux distros they tried and easily connected to 
| the internet from inside the school (they like to read Yahoo 360 blogs in 
| class). They figured out how to use Konquerer to browse around the different 
| directories in their laptops without me even telling them. As with Macbooks, 
| the Desktop GUI was easy to learn. Thus, I decided to use PCLinuxOS.      
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http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=516


Russian Linux (ALTLinux) to be installed in every school in Russia

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| Russian OS is to be installed on every school computer in Russia by 2009. 
| Furthermore, every pupil will get the opportunity to operate the applied 
| software produced in Russia, Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication 
| stated at a press conference. According to Mr. Reiman, that might 
| significantly reduce Russian dependence on foreign software.    
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http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007%2F09%2F14%2F266177


Embracing PCLinuxOS and Open Source

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| As other countries embrace free, open source software (like Austrian schools 
| learning how to use OpenOffice), especially GNU/Linux distributions on the 
| desktop as alternatives to Windows/Mac, the burning question is, how long 
| before the USA catches on?   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Maybe another question to ask is, how fast can we honestly expect schools to 
| change so that they can simply take advantage of this? And, as they drop all 
| the extra software license agreements they've been carrying around, where 
| will that money go and how will it be spent? How can educators get it focused 
| on where it's needed most?    
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http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/archives/2007/12/entry_4061.htm


'Open Minds' want Linux and open source in American schools

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| Many other countries are turning to Linux and open-source for their 
| school-house computer needs, and now there's a conference for those who want 
| to bring it to schools in the U.S.  
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4224026697.html


Open source booming in K-12 education

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| An eSchools report (right) says open source spending is growing 70% per year, 
| and will be up 800% in 2011 from last year’s level. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1376


U.S. schools may join inexpensive laptop project

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| A project that aims to deliver low-priced laptops with string pulleys
| to the world's poorest children may have a new market: U.S. schools.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2642385520070426


Birmingham might buy thousands of XO Laptop computers for students in grades
one through eight

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| The machines don't run Microsoft Office, Photoshop or any other standard Mac 
| or Windows programs, instead using a free, open-source version of GNU/Linux, 
| with a simplified graphical interface designed for children called Sugar. The 
| laptop has a 500-megahertz processor and 256 megabytes of DRAM (dynamic 
| random access memory) with 1 gigabyte of flash memory. The laptops have Web 
| browsers and their own Wi-Fi system, the ability to connect to the Internet 
| wirelessly. Each is on a "mesh network," meaning all the laptops can see each 
| other, without any setup, even if there is no wireless connection nearby.       
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http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1195463987242670.xml&coll=2&thispage=1


Linux being launched at schools

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| Besides the operating system the package is to comprise some freely 
| distributed programs, close to MS Office by their functionality, which are to 
| be used on computers with the following characteristics: 233 MHz and 128MB 
| DDR.   
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http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/10/25/272200


Kubuntu Takes Over the Canary Islands

,----[ Quote ]
| The Canary Islands have two derivatives of Kubuntu, one which is being 
| installed in all their schools and one used by the largest university. 
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1142


All Macedonian students to use Linux desktops

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| NComputing announced this week that its multi-user virtual desktop software 
| and low-cost virtual PC terminals will be used to equip every school child in 
| the Republic of Macedonia, formerly part of Yugoslavia, with a Linux desktop.  
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7546509093.html


CICT to computerize 320 public high schools 

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| The PCs are loaded with several open-source tools including EdUbuntu (a 
| version of Ubuntu designed for schools), OpenOffice, Apache, MySQL and 
| Mozilla Firefox, among others.  
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=95414

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