[ale] Please help me give away PCs.

[rbutera at ece.gatech.edu (Robert Butera)]

>  I suppose a few people are skeptical about what possible good a bunch
> of old 486s can do in a classroom, but I think that we've been pretty
> careful about engineering the plan to account for *exceptionally* thin
> clients, and kept in mind that a computer in a classroom shouldn't just
> be a tool to get kids out of the instructor's hair, but provide some
> real value in terms of learning.

Back when I lived in Washington DC, there was a high school in Montgomery
County, MD (rather well-off suburb) that succeeded in getting Linux into one
high school, largely through the efforts of a particularly resourceful
student who was quite Linux literate and a member of DCLUG. I think that is
the _trick_ for getting Linux accepted -- some in-house expertise.

He wrote an article about in in the Linux Journal no too long ago.  Here
is the URL:  

http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue59/3131.html




Robert Butera, Assistant Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences	
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0363 USA
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