* Classroom servers vs. Centralized Enterprise servers
* Teachers with admin privileges on classroom servers vs. teachers who
have a limited ability to load OSS apps on an enterprise server
* Freedom vs. Stability
In an ideal world, teachers would have freedom to download any FOSS
app they'd like to try out (a key benefit of FOSS) without any risk to
any server, regardless of location. Reality is that many FOSS titles
require some level of expertise and there is risk of at least breaking
other apps in the process, if not requiring a reinstall of the OS. In
a classroom server model, they would primarily only risk their own
classroom server, but in an enterprise server model, they could affect
a significant portion of the school.
Has anyone in the group tackled this issue before? One suggestion
might be that even in an enterprise model, teachers have the option of
a classroom server to which they can freely add applications.
Alternately, they can install only those apps that operate within
their home folder's domain. What do you folks think?
Best,
Daniel