There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux
There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux
By going all-in on Linux, teacher Robert Maynord ensured his school was ready for remote learning—even before it needed to be.
If you guys are interested in hearing the IT directors Ted talk from 2014 here it is https://youtu.be/f8Co37GO2Fc
Im glad they're using Linux but I wish it didn't have to be because they were fucking broke...
Hehe if you're REALLY broke you get "benevolent" corporate grants for things like cheap Chromebooks, so Google can write off a huge donation while vendor-locking school infrastructure and student mindshare into their "cloud services."
It’s a private school, not much you can do (also 0 tech budget ≠ broke)
There once was a school that ran Linux
"Not so!" cried so many cynics
Robert Maynard put Linux in
it made the cynics heads spin
so fast they ended up at the clinics
If you actually look up the school it is really cool. They literally give students full root access to there local machines and encourage learning. That is a bright contrast to the world of locked down Chromebooks and high surveillance
That's pretty cool yeah.
This just reminded me of a thing from my high school (many years ago). They had windows machines that were somewhat locked down, but I discovered a trivial way to bypass the restrictions on changing the desktop wallpaper. So naturally I set the background image to a screenshot of the desktop, and then hid all the actual icons.
On another timeline, the staff would have approached this with "Huh that's clever. You fooled us and we thought the computer was broken. Please don't do that, but also let's channel your creativity somewhere useful."
Instead I got a monologue about breaking things and was banned from the computer lab for a week. Soured me on school and such for a while.
There’s a school I’ve worked at that’s got somewhat old desktops running Ubuntu. I smiled when I saw it.
Yeah my university commons and lab computers had 3 options you could select before reserving one: Windows, OSX, and Ubuntu.
Anyone else find themselves singing this headline to the tune of The House of the Rising Sun?
I hate that it lines up so perfectly, and then is missing a single syllable following "linux".
GNU/Linux
Stallman saves the day
I didn't before but now I am glad I did
I went to an elementary school in California that was using Linux laptops circa ~2008, I have find memories of playing Super Tux after finishing my classwork.
Found your memories?
Anyway I too played SuperTuxKart. When I was in middle school I bought a computer for $3 at a garage sale and then shortly after installed Linux on it.
A nice read. A real good internal self-made infrastructure.
A school? One? There's one school? Don't all schools use Linux?
That would make the world a better place
"There's a school in Wisconsin that is so underfunded that they only have very old computers and the person running it barely knows hat's a computer and thus won't ever create a budget or approve new systems. Furthermore this school is so irrelevant they aren't even able to qualify for free software from Microsoft. A bored teacher saved the day and made the old computers somewhat useful by installing Linux on his spare time. Of course all of this doesn't come for free, the current generation of students never used a computer at home, just mobile devices, and are being robbed of learning a valuable and required skill for any future job - basic Windows and Office usage."
There, article fixed for you.
Sure basic windows and office usage is sure a required skill.
You don't even use windows that much in any future job. You use the software solutions you are given as a wage slave. And most of them run in a browser.
Also cool that this school is unimportant for Microsoft. But for the students, teachers and parents its certainly ain't.
You don’t even use windows that much in any future job. You use the software solutions you are given as a wage slave
So you're assuming there aren't "wage slaves" doing data entry on MS Office and also that 0% of those students won't ever be managers or hold any other more high level job that does require those tools. So you must be against teaching financial literacy at school as well because "they won't ever invest anything". Great job, let's keep the peasants illiterate in everything they actually need to climb the ladder.
a valuable and required skill for any future job - basic Windows and Office usage.
Not everybody is a data-entry drone. I have no use for it, and I have a technical career.
Also Libreoffice works just as well
Not everybody is a data-entry drone. I have no use for it, and I’m in a technical career.
Your manager, that most likely started his career as a tech person as most tech manager do, likely uses Office a lot and he certainly isn't a data-entry drone. One day as you progress in your career you'll too.
PS: whoever doesn't understand this comment and downvote right away should really think about their life. If one doesn't understand that a manager does need to be proficient in MS Office then you'll never get there / have a very hard time.
basic Windows and Office usage
lol
Just like people are constantly using Fax machines
Why put this much effort in trying to getting banned? Is making up a story based on the headline a creative writing exercise for you?
They could upgrade at this point but it doesn't make any sense. This is just one article. There literally give laptops to all the students and then allow they students to have full access.
Most of there IT department is also run by students.
uninteresting disingenuous troll
You know it's bad when you recognize the user name.
Good! Teach them useless pirate OS things so they don't take away my job! /S
Or that :P