[K12OSN] Linux cut off

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Hello Jason,

I don't mind a bit, and that hereby applies to anyone else who wants to 
as well...even Microsoft, if they so choose.

I would gladly give you a testimonial about my teaching without using 
Microsoft, except for one problem.  I'm actually not a classroom 
teacher.  Rather, I'm one of those "tech" people that...well, so many 
teachers and administrators seem to hold in contempt.  I'll be glad when 
they wake up and realize that we're on their side.

The best "testimonial" that I can give you is this: 

The tech person (also a teacher) in the school that has K12LTSP has not 
had to reboot his server even once.  The kids like it and brag about how 
"we use Linux, we're da bomb!"  Yes, some kids have actually taken 
K12LTSP CDs home, and there are a few who I know actually used it.  The 
teachers like it because they don't have to play sneakernet  in the 
computer lab anymore; they can access the kids' data from 
their--sadly--Windows boxes.  Ah well, can't have everything.  :-)  And 
the principal is ecstatic because, due to that K12LTSP server, that 
school saved about $30K...before factoring in the yearly maintenance 
savings.  This is *one* server in *one* computer lab that gave--and 
continues to give--this principal's budget that savings.

It would seem that whatever curricula those teachers at this school are 
using, K12LTSP does seem to be compatible with it.  The teachers don't 
really know that the kids are using OpenOffice.org, nor do they seem to 
care, so long as they can keep opening the kids' files on their Windows 
boxes running MS Office.  I'm guessing that the principal had a lot to 
do with the relative lack of whining at the beginning. 

Perhaps this isn't the kind of testimonial you were looking for, but 
it's the best I can do.

--TP

Jason wrote:

> Terrell,
>
> Mind if I use your email as well? :)
>
> Do you have any testimonial or something like that regarding your 
> teaching without using Microsoft?  Like the fact that you can still do 
> the curriculum using Linux/Open Source?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
> Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Permission is certainly granted.  Go for it!
>>
>> BTW, I have, for the last year, been able to go completely to 
>> GNU/Linux on my desktop, without ever touching a single Win32 app on 
>> said desktop.  This is in a total and complete dyed-in-the-wool 
>> Microsoft shop.  It is possible, and it's no longer hard.
>>
>> --TP
>>
>> Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>>
>>> Terrell,
>>>   This is one of the best set of analogies and yet the simplest single
>>> argument I have seen yet to exercise the point of OSS.  If you don't
>>> mind I would like your permission to print this and keep to present to
>>> the narrow-minded individuals I run into in the future. 
>>
>
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