Comments on: My old neighborhood featured in ComputerWorld for migrating its schools to Linux http://www.michaeldolan.com/1153 Linux, Law, Open Source, and a Comedy of Errors Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:41:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Schinker http://www.michaeldolan.com/1153/comment-page-1#comment-16571 John Schinker Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:12:55 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/?p=1153#comment-16571 I honestly didn't realize Andrew had finished and published that article until you pointed me to it -- thanks for the link and the kind words. He actually writes for Computerworld Australia, so I was a bit surprised to hear from him. In our schools, we've been using Linux extensively on the network side for a decade or so. About 90% of our servers are running Linux, and almost all of the software on them is open source. This is the first time we've actually tried to get students and teachers using it at the desktop level, though. We've moved on from the "exploring what these things can do" stage to an actual pilot. A sixth grade teacher will be using the eeePCs in his class for the rest of the year, and then he'll decide whether to get give Dell laptops running Windows or about 15 of the little laptops. Feel free to shoot me an email when you're going to be in town. I'd love to talk. I honestly didn’t realize Andrew had finished and published that article until you pointed me to it — thanks for the link and the kind words. He actually writes for Computerworld Australia, so I was a bit surprised to hear from him.

In our schools, we’ve been using Linux extensively on the network side for a decade or so. About 90% of our servers are running Linux, and almost all of the software on them is open source. This is the first time we’ve actually tried to get students and teachers using it at the desktop level, though.

We’ve moved on from the “exploring what these things can do” stage to an actual pilot. A sixth grade teacher will be using the eeePCs in his class for the rest of the year, and then he’ll decide whether to get give Dell laptops running Windows or about 15 of the little laptops.

Feel free to shoot me an email when you’re going to be in town. I’d love to talk.

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