LTSP in Education is an article I wrote while struggling with a school system that was desperately trying to keep Windows while being unable to keep it going. In it, I explain that Linux on thin clients is at the right price/performance point for educational organizations that are squeezed between tight budgets both in capital expenditures and maintenance. Using an operating system designed 7 years ago with little regard for security and having a copy of it on hundreds of hard drives all the while trying to respect an end-user licence agreement that is extremely limiting is a recipe for disaster. Some school divisions, being utterly unable to manage this juggling act have adopted Linux and been surprised by stability, ease of software maintenance and the joy of being able to do what needs to be done to educate students. Others refuse to accept the reality that Microsoft is dead, seeming still to fly only by its momentum.
Archive for February 7th, 2007
| This is the blog of an old man who has been there and done that. I have worked with computers for nearly forty years. Lately I have been teaching and using GNU/Linux in schools. Last year, I designed a complete IT systems for a school and installed it. |
I have been using Linux since 1999 when I had several machines running that other OS failing daily. I installed Linux for my first time and those old machines ran flawlessly for months. I have been hooked on Linux and FLOSS ever since.
I intend to comment on what I am doing and what others are doing that matters to me. A lot of it will be about computers and FLOSS. Some will be about berries and mushrooms. See my homepage .
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