As someone that works as a network manager in a secondary school in Norwich I can say that the IT support brach for the schools has a hard enough time with windoze. Cheers, Ben
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:37:45 +0100 Ben Norcutt wrote:
As someone that works as a network manager in a secondary school in Norwich I can say that the IT support brach for the schools has a hard enough time with windoze.
I'd always wished that more educational establishments have access to Linux, since it was what attracted me to university in the first place! There I was with my copy of Yggrdrasil Linux with 0.93 of the kernel and I was happily tinkering about with it on my 486DX-33 computer with 8Mb RAM (which I then had to upgrade to 16Mb because of X-Windows). This was way back in 1994. These days, distributions such as Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE making it so much easier to install. Applications such as Openoffice, Abiword, Gimp, etc make it easier to get up and running productively. There really isn't much excuse not to go for a Linux solution in the school now, whether it be studying for a GCSE in Computer Studies or word processing your latest German essay. Linux is the best of both worlds - a productivity operating system combined with enough development tools to satisfy the most demanding of programmers. Regards, Martyn -- Martyn Drake | Email : martyn-d@moving-picture.com Systems Administrator | Web : http://www.moving-picture.com The Moving Picture Company | Phone : +44 (0)20 7494 7853
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:52:17PM +0100, Martyn Drake said:
There really isn't much excuse not to go for a Linux solution in the school now, whether it be studying for a GCSE in Computer Studies or word processing your latest German essay. Linux is the best of both worlds - a productivity operating system combined with enough development tools to satisfy the most demanding of programmers.
Really it doesn't matter on what operating system you are using as long you are connected to the network, doing your work, programming etc. It still accounts for all systems available out there. It's all down to computing really. Microsoft just shown the ugly side of computing and how it sets out to damage the industry by producing a simple point and click life. Point and Click life comes with a cost. -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'
From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk On Behalf Of Ben Norcutt Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:38 PM
As someone that works as a network manager in a secondary school in Norwich I can say that the IT support brach for the schools has a hard enough time with windoze.
<SOAPBOX> I've been working in the IT industry as both in development and support roles since 1975. I've a fair bit of experience both using and supporting all sorts of systems including Unix and Windows based systems. In my experience, in terms of complexity and effort required, there is absolutely no difference between them. In the main the problems and issues stay the same in both. Most of the issues are those of user management and the logistics of deployment. The main difference for any organisation, public or private sector, between them is that the acquisition costs of GNU/Linux based systems is a lot lot less. </SOAPBOX> Regards, Keith ____________ Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen Saying
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