itwire.com — Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.he school decided to adopt Linux on the desktop on a fairly large scale, with about 350 workstations being installed with the free operating system.
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litespeedFeb 19, 2008
I agree 100%. I worked in IT for a school and it was the exactly same experience. The kids just rolled with it and used whatever we gave them - but the teachers?! Teachers are the most resistant to change and they dig their heels in like 3 year olds if they don't get their way.Also parents (especially in private schools) exert a tremendous amount of pressure if their kids are not being taught the same software that mummy or daddy use at work. The kids should be being taught concepts rather than specifics but they never see it that way.Good experience but I was glad to leave.
sirhomerFeb 19, 2008
Oh please, call me when Microsoft designs a proper package manager. Microsoft's workstation (especially "Active Directory") management tools are horrible. But no sense in talking to you. Have fun with your constantly broken software.
dan90251Feb 20, 2008
I've not long had a new PC. Ironically I installed Vista64 and found it difficult, with a lot of running around for drivers and even then I got BSD's on Vista, I thought it was a hardware issue, but I thought I'd try Ubuntu64 and it worked detected the network card straight away. Even the graphics card worked at 1280, I was impressed and it was stable.My only issue is being a .net developer with MSDN, I now feel the need to try Windows2008 so back to windows i go (I thought running it in a VM would cause me grief).We'll see how win2008 compares, but I'm expecting better results than Vista64... which I might re-try with SP1
cbeagleFeb 20, 2008
"granted, the driver disk was the first thing I installed after the OS". That?s all I had to do on Ubuntu. So its fair to say that the experience you have had with Ubuntu 32, matches your experience with Windows 32. <a class="user" href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.09.html">http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_16 ...</a>There is a good place to start on your graphics issue. Point me towards your post on the ubuntu forums and I can help you with the rest on there. If your responses and demeanor match what we have all seen on here, I can understand why you have not received the quality of support you have been looking for.
goodhorsehymnFeb 21, 2008
Try Puppy Linux if your laptop is ancient.
slippiefistFeb 22, 2008
Ask for help in a Linux support forum, get told how stupid you are and you should just go back to Windows.
Closed AccountFeb 24, 2008
Actually for many people it can be harder to move to something similar because it's so similar. When they're similar, it can be hard to tell them apart. You fall into XP instincts & suddenly if you can't find something it jars you out of "work mode" and into "learning mode." With a new environment, you're quite sure what you know & what you don't know because you spent a while just learning it.
thepxcFeb 27, 2008
Bootcamp is irrelevant. You don't have to have a configurable multi-OS bootloader to run Windows. If you really want a Mac to run Windows on it, go ahead and install--blast away OS X completely.(Not that I think it's a good idea--just don't confuse the ability to run a different OS with the bootloader.)
dudley9May 25, 2008
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kidlinuxSep 12, 2008
Yes, I have bootcamp and Windows on my Mac. I can't remember the point I was trying to make. Something to do with everyone going on about Linux and Windows while ignoring what's probably most interesting about this story - the fact that they're using Macs and introducing OS X.