On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 18:34 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 10/29/05, Bill Perkins <perk@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Tim wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:46 +0100, malcolm wrote: > > Heh heh... sounds about right; more reason to install Linux: you can > > keep _much_ better control over the student's systems, and you don't > > have to worry so much about spyware/adware/viruses/worms. To say nothing > > of the maintenance involved; with Fedora, you can keep the systems at > > the level _you_ want in terms of updates and packages. No kidding. Why is not being able to play yahoo vids a bad thing? ..sounds like a good thing as far as the school administration is concerned to me. > Problem is, thats going to make Linux-haters out of the students. I doubt it...school haters maybe :) Even still, you might show them it's possible first. Just disallowed by the rules. They might even learn how much control *nix admins have. Install mplayer or whatever needs to be installed on a few machines...just not student machines. Why should the machines students use allow behavior the administration is trying to discourage? I certainly don't want my kid doing whatever she wants at school...she needs to learn to follow the rules. Especially when it's hard, or it's a rule she thinks is stupid or disagrees with. That's just life and a part of growing up...few of us can always do what we want...and school and work are two prime examples. > The students are going to find something else to waste their time on. > Might as well let them waste it on something that will make them love > Linux. Yeah, set up a BZFLAG server and let the games begin! > Even better, if you can break the video downloads somehow in > windows and let them use that for a week before you switch them over > to linux. Then they will really love linux. (nice touch, Dotan.) -- Craig
