High School Students Develop Linux Imaging and Help Desk Software 116
An anonymous reader writes "A Pennsylvania school district is going Linux and building an open source high school with the help of student technology apprentices. As part of a 1:1 laptop learning program, 1725 high school students at Penn Manor School District are receiving new laptops running Ubuntu and open source software exclusively. Central to the program is a student help desk where student programmers created a Linux multicast imaging system titled Fast Linux Deployment Toolkit. The district posted pictures of the imaging process in action. Working alongside school IT staff, students also developed help desk software and other programs in support of the 1:1 student laptop program. The student tech apprentices also provide peer support for fellow students."
Re:What about the windows only software? and offic (Score:5, Insightful)
I look at it the other way. Microsoft products do not fully work with open formats. Public institutions really should be using open formats.
Re:What about the windows only software? and offic (Score:4, Insightful)
Link to a document that does not open correctly in up to date Open/Libreoffice.
It is harder than you think. It has been on par for a while now.
And if the entire school uses it then there is no Office anyway.
yay for common sense in education (Score:4, Insightful)
so often it seems the answer is just "throw some money at it, give the little shits an iPad" with no real
any idiot can use a computer for lowly office grunt work. Basically, that is to technology what working at McDonald's is to culinary training.
Re:What about the windows only software? and offic (Score:2, Insightful)
It's about time (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What about the windows only software? and offic (Score:4, Insightful)
Which is why they teach LaTeX.
If you want to spend 20% of your effort on formatting my school suggests using Word.
If you want to spend 5% on your formatting and 95% on your content you use LaTeX.