Re: [seul-edu] School count

[Michael Hall <admin@mulga.com.au>]

All schools in Australia's Northern Territory (about 180 schools) are having
Linux LAN servers installed right now. Most schools have already got a
satellite dish and Linux-based router. All schools are also having Star Office
5.2 distributed to them to run on the Windows clients.

My own school has semi-officially been using Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL to run
intranet, student news and student project web applications for some months now
(we still don't have a public website though).

Michael Hall

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, you wrote:
> * Jennifer Dozar <jennifer@grawk.net> [010822 06:09]:
> > How many schools out there actually use linux? at least a linux server? I
> > know Mr Lehman's school in Manhattan does. but which other schools do? 
> 
> There are at least three schools in Belize using Linux servers, though
> one of them is using Novell also.  It is hard to understand why any
> school would be using NT unless schools in developed nations have
> money to burn  ;-)
> 
> We are trying to move toward all-Linux labs.  We're hoping that by the
> beginning of school year 2002-03 some of the nagging details like font
> management (beginning to become tolerable but through lots of
> tweaking) and more application software will make that easier.
> 
> A real challenge is how to train computer teachers to become system
> administrators ... it's surprising how many schools have no sysadmins
> at all, really.  The main reason NT is easier to administrate is
> because it comes (mis)installed, and because Windows gives you the
> illusion that you can administer a network without understanding what
> you're doing.
> 
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