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Booting

Published by Robert Pogson July 1st, 2010 in Linux in Education and technology. 14 Comments

I had a laugh when I read this note on booting operating systems. Every day, I see the lady across the hall boot her XP machine and go for coffee… She is a fine teacher but has too much patience for that other OS. Sadly, she is leaving us to teach in another community next year. I will put in one of the new PCs with GNU/Linux in place of her machine for next year.

I really enjoy the booting of Debian Squeeze. It does parallel processing to telescope the steps of booting to a few strands where one process depends on another existing or having done some preparation. When the desktop appears, you are ready to rock and roll. No time for coffee…

That could affect the coffee-drinking habits of our staff and it could increase productivity.

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.