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Linux may be cool, but it is hardly ubiquitous
Posted on 12/10/2008 5:23:13 PM PST by ari-freedom
In an age where Windows and OS X reign supreme, it's no wonder that a local AISD middle school teacher became enraged after discovering one of her students distributing what she believed to be bootlegged copies of an operating system in class.
While teacher "Karen" was clearly operating under the assumption that she'd scored a minor victory for the Microsofts and other downtrodden software giants of the world, the particular operating system that she ended up disciplining her student for was a freely distributable version of Linux.
To wit, the following is part of an email that the teacher sent to the person who originally provided said Linux to the student
(Excerpt) Read more at austinist.com ...
And you get more solitaire games with Linux!
However, we mustn’t leave MS out of the picture completely.
LOL
Agree
Wisdom - The ability to appropriately apply knowledge in specific situations
That said, some of the brightest people I know are MD’s
Able to modify paradigms with rapidly shifting and very incomplete databases,
with catastrophic consequences always possible...
And I live in a town full of Nuclear Physicists and Engineering types
Don't mind me, I've just been on call too much lately and am grumpy
Woo Hoo! Electrical Engineers rock!
Too smart and/or busy to get a date though!
“However, we mustn’t leave MS out of the picture completely.”
no, but schools need to save money and there’s no reason to waste $ on Microsoft for the sake of using Microsoft if Linux fits the bill just fine.
/johnny
There are ways to speed up Open Office. My way is to not use it, but Koffice in KDE.
They make money selling support! Winds up costing corporate IT the same as Windows.
The problem with LINUX is that if the admin screws up royally, he has no one to blame. If he screws up while using Windows, he can scapegoat Microsoft and maybe keep his job.
Windows has unfairly become the whipping boy for incompetant admins.
Average SAT scores of incoming college freshmen declared as education majors are very low. If you consider in the 900s low.
And IQ means squat in real world performance and has no correlation with common sense.
Also, plenty of “intelligent” people are poorly educated, ignorant and indoctrinated. Including those with college degrees.
I agree with you completely. However, I was refering to my previous humorous(?) post regarding OSes and not the schools. Personally, I left MS quite awhile ago and only run linux OSes. :)
As far as the schools go, they should always have a choice. How can you learn if you don’t try new things?
- Traveler
“They make money selling support!”
I’m not just talking about those companies. There are a lot of companies, like google or tivo, that use linux to add value to their products.
Foxit’s yellow highlighter feature is top notch, it makes reading long .PDF’s managable.
I like Open Office, but my needs are small, are you using it for a Enterprise or ?
EXACTLY!
To this day...wordperfect...I’d better stop now...
[it’s great for students. Let them have the opportunity to use a system that they can understand.]
It’s also great for engineers and small business people like myself who actually need to keep machines running non-stop. My Fedora web server has run without a hitch for four years. Constant automatic patch reboots on my XP and Vista machines are a disaster in wasted energy and lost productivity - I put them on manual which also requires down time.
But heck, what’s a few productivity issues to smart people?
That's what initially made me switch - the markup tools.
I like Open Office, but my needs are small, are you using it for a Enterprise or ?
Strictly personal.
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