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The institutions Computerworld spoke to are linked through School Forge, an open forum that unifies independent organisations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education.
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The district's elementary schools were the first to receive modified LTSP computers which initially ran on Red Hat.
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"Diskless only requires updating the server and the entire school gets the update. I can also cluster the servers and issue the update. In 15 minutes I can update OpenOffice on thousands of diskless workstations. This beats ghosting Windows hard drives,"
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Montgomery said the youngest students particularly enjoy Tux Paint, Web apps tailored for younger kids, Gcompris and the Supertux game. Intermediate level students favour Web apps, OpenOffice, Tuxmath, Supertux, Pingus, Tux Racer, and playing with the look and feel of their desktop environment - KDE.
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"Once the students see how much they can customize and tweak KDE desktop and play with Beryl 3D desktop, they like Linux more than Windows. When it comes down to it, Windows is a window manager with WordPad, Web browser and Email - Linux has all of that and more," he said.
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"We give everyone FreeNX access to their Linux desktop from home so they can get all the same programs without having to install Linux at home."
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"By not running Windows, we can put some limits on the expectations of the little laptops. They're not going to run Accelerated Reader, or Successmaker or Adobe CS. We can focus the expectations on the things that it does well rather than trying to make all of these other applications work, and that is really nice from a tech perspective."
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What the Linux Eee PC will do for the district is allow kids to access the Web, write essays and stories, collect and graph data, and prepare and deliver presentations.
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"On the server side, almost everything we use is open source. We run Linux servers with Apache, MySQL, PHP, WordPress, Moodle, Samba, Xmail, Dovecot, SquirrelMail, etc. In almost every case, we've been able to implement better technology for less money because of the availability of open source and open standards technologies."
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03 Apr 08
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Marc LijourSchool districts in the US and Canada find Linux and open source offers better support, cheaper setup costs, and improved educational value
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02 Apr 08
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In 15 minutes I can update OpenOffice on thousands of diskless workstations. This beats ghosting Windows hard drives," he said.
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We get better support with open source software: online wiki's, forums, mailing lists etc are much faster and better to get support than phoning up Microsoft and listening to someone read off answers from flash cards."
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Robin WilenskyLots of good information about tools that SD's are using in the classroom.
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