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masinick
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 Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2025 9:57 pm Post subject: Is Linux Worth the Effort? |
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The Linux journal has a great essay on setting up LTSP for use in a school. The writer indicates that most of the hurdles to overcome are requirements by teachers to obtain simplicity and have things as close to the way they were "before" as possible! In spite of that, this writer is enthusiastic about the use of LTSP, saying it sure is a lot better than managing tens or hundreds of systems!
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005992 |
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crouse
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masinick
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2025 2:57 am Post subject: Need new teachers who are willing to learn |
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| crouse wrote: | Funny how it's the teachers he has to overcome and not the students at all 
Now what does that say ........ |
It says that teachers are too busy to learn new things and are creatures of habit. I say buck that and embrace the new. Maybe we need some new teachers! I suspect we DO. |
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Wide
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masinick
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2025 7:29 am Post subject: Re: Need new teachers who are willing to learn |
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| Wide wrote: | | masinick wrote: |
It says that teachers are too busy to learn new things and are creatures of habit. I say buck that and embrace the new. Maybe we need some new teachers! I suspect we DO. |
Goes for most all of us old folk. One thing I swore was never get old or set in my ways. We need to evolve and reinvent ourselves as technology comes forth.
I require all of my employees to complete at least 4 credits a year to stay with us. Most do more.  |
Good idea. I am not sure that I get 4 credits a year, but I completed graduate studies after many years in the industry and I am constantly researching, often many hours after I ought to be in bed - like tonight!
It is a shame that in the case of the writer, it was the teachers who demanded something like the status quo. I can appreciate their position - their main job is to teach and they already spend many hours working on lesson plans and correcting work, and other planning. But don't we all? I am a senior project manager, and I plan all the time, have many meetings, yet I find time to research, sometimes during the day if it pertains to work, and often on my own time. |
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masinick
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| JP wrote: | | Quote: | | Is Linux Worth the Effort? |
Ask the millions around the world who use it! .......... I think that's a resounding "yes" I hear off in the distance . |
It is not only education who can use LTSP, though there is a special K12LTSP specifically for that application. My next door neighbor, Mark, has a nice LTSP setup with a wireless router to connect a bunch of old laptops that were being disposed of at his wife's place of employment. They got the laptops very inexpensively and the kids use them for games and school work. Mark and his wife use them for a variety of things including Internet access.
LTSP, the Linux Terminal Server Project, is a nice project for sure! |
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