Posted by: Joe Klemmer
on December 18, 2003 05:49 AM
> I have been using Linux since slackware was out before RedHat and computers had the dreaded isa bus and irq manual assignment.
Ah, a relitive newbee to Linux. I started in November 1991 with HJ Lu's boot/root disks.
As for the actual point, while it's true that the "support" you can get from the Open Source community is better than just about every commercial counterpart, you can't expect schools to handle the support of their computers themselves. The teachers and administration don't have the time to search the web and lists for answers. We who have been in the IS business and who work with it every day sometimes forget that it's easy for us to go find an answer that way because that's what we do anyway. A teacher would be lucky to have an hour a week to spend on software support. This is what we need to address.
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Posted by: Joe Klemmer on December 18, 2003 05:49 AMAh, a relitive newbee to Linux. I started in November 1991 with HJ Lu's boot/root disks.
As for the actual point, while it's true that the "support" you can get from the Open Source community is better than just about every commercial counterpart, you can't expect schools to handle the support of their computers themselves. The teachers and administration don't have the time to search the web and lists for answers. We who have been in the IS business and who work with it every day sometimes forget that it's easy for us to go find an answer that way because that's what we do anyway. A teacher would be lucky to have an hour a week to spend on software support. This is what we need to address.
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