Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 14, 2006 10:04 PM
Amen. Free Software licenses, such as the GNU GPL, respect your freedom and actively work to protect it. That, and the fact that Linux is just built better than Windows to begin with.
Like you, I too use Linux terminal servers, in my case, in the form of K12LTSP. K12LTSP takes a lot of the "geekiness" out of setting up a Linux terminal server. I have it installed on my laptop as a workstation OS. I was showing off the educational apps to a teacher one day, and she said "wow, that's cool, what is all that?" I described what it was, and, a few months later, she took it upon herself to download and install K12LTSP...with only minimal assistance from me (she needed a slightly customized setup due to her network structure). She is a Windows and (occasional) Mac user; she had never even *seen* UNIX or GNU/Linux before, and she found it very easy to use. As for keeping the system updated, once I showed her "yum update", her exact words were, "That's it? Oh my god, *anyone* could do that!"
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Re:Chose Linux for the block.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 14, 2006 10:04 PMLike you, I too use Linux terminal servers, in my case, in the form of K12LTSP. K12LTSP takes a lot of the "geekiness" out of setting up a Linux terminal server. I have it installed on my laptop as a workstation OS. I was showing off the educational apps to a teacher one day, and she said "wow, that's cool, what is all that?" I described what it was, and, a few months later, she took it upon herself to download and install K12LTSP...with only minimal assistance from me (she needed a slightly customized setup due to her network structure). She is a Windows and (occasional) Mac user; she had never even *seen* UNIX or GNU/Linux before, and she found it very easy to use. As for keeping the system updated, once I showed her "yum update", her exact words were, "That's it? Oh my god, *anyone* could do that!"
K12LTSP is now in production use in her school.
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