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Stewart Fleming wrote:
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We are looking at moving to it as well....Novell has some good looking
Enterprise tools.

regards

Thing

In article <>,
Stewart Fleming <> wrote:

>http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_art...ame=Technology

I keep wondering what will happen when the kids find out what kind of
fun stuff there can be packed into a typical Linux distro. And SuSE is
one of the more feature-laden ones...

Speaking of which, are there many young hacker types around? You see
them in fictional TV programs and movies, but I've yet to meet one in
real life.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In article <>,
> Stewart Fleming <> wrote:
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>>http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_art...ame=Technology
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> I keep wondering what will happen when the kids find out what kind of
> fun stuff there can be packed into a typical Linux distro. And SuSE is
> one of the more feature-laden ones...
>
> Speaking of which, are there many young hacker types around? You see
> them in fictional TV programs and movies, but I've yet to meet one in
> real life.

This is because in the nature of the beast they don't get out a lot...

Philip

In article <>, Philip <>
wrote:

>Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> In article <>,
>> Stewart Fleming <> wrote:
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>>>http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_art...ame=Technology
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>> I keep wondering what will happen when the kids find out what kind of
>> fun stuff there can be packed into a typical Linux distro. And SuSE is
>> one of the more feature-laden ones...
>>
>> Speaking of which, are there many young hacker types around? You see
>> them in fictional TV programs and movies, but I've yet to meet one in
>> real life.
>
>This is because in the nature of the beast they don't get out a lot...

The other weekend I met a young boy (son of a friend of mine from
University days). In-between him giving me a detailed explanation of the
rules of the "Lord of the Rings" board game, we managed to have an
intelligent conversation about the battle of Agincourt, properties of
the Pythagorean solids, and topology.

The surprising thing to me was, no one had introduced him to the idea of
programming a computer. It could very well be that he has no aptitude
for it, but somehow I think that's unlikely. I think the real reason is
that none of the adults around him knows enough about the subject to
bring it up.

Stewart Fleming wrote:
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btw, was it ever banned?

Or simply not acknoledged as being used?

I know at least 1 school and 2 techs that ran Linux....going back to 2000.

regards

Thing

Lawrence D¹Oliveiro wrote:
> In article <>, Philip <>
> wrote:
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>>Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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>>>In article <>,
>>> Stewart Fleming <> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_art...ame=Technology
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>>>I keep wondering what will happen when the kids find out what kind of
>>>fun stuff there can be packed into a typical Linux distro. And SuSE is
>>>one of the more feature-laden ones...
>>>
>>>Speaking of which, are there many young hacker types around? You see
>>>them in fictional TV programs and movies, but I've yet to meet one in
>>>real life.
>>
>>This is because in the nature of the beast they don't get out a lot...
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> The other weekend I met a young boy (son of a friend of mine from
> University days). In-between him giving me a detailed explanation of the
> rules of the "Lord of the Rings" board game, we managed to have an
> intelligent conversation about the battle of Agincourt, properties of
> the Pythagorean solids, and topology.
>
> The surprising thing to me was, no one had introduced him to the idea of
> programming a computer. It could very well be that he has no aptitude
> for it, but somehow I think that's unlikely. I think the real reason is
> that none of the adults around him knows enough about the subject to
> bring it up.

Or dont want to. A friend of mine seems to be steering her child at the
arts....

Yet he is really good with lego & knex.

regards

Thing

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:44:05 +1200, wrote:

> Stewart Fleming wrote:
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>> http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_art...ame=Technology
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> btw, was it ever banned?
>
> Or simply not acknoledged as being used?
>
> I know at least 1 school and 2 techs that ran Linux....going back to 2000.
>
> regards
>
> Thing

The company I work for oversee's several local schools, the strategy
they/we use has been windows in the classrooms, linux on the 'backbone'.
I personally would like to see more linux in classrooms, as that negates
the, 'it costs more to train linux staff BS', with products like mandriva
and suse being ideal candidates for workstation use.
Mind you, in the background we are running SME on the servers, which is
an rpm based distro from contribs.org, and (IMO) not as easy to admin as
some of the other distros about, but it does have a funky web based
frontend, which is why I think its being used



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Shane wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:44:05 +1200, wrote:
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>>Stewart Fleming wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_art...ame=Technology
>>>
>>>
>>
>>btw, was it ever banned?
>>
>>Or simply not acknoledged as being used?
>>
>>I know at least 1 school and 2 techs that ran Linux....going back to 2000.
>>
>>regards
>>
>>Thing
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> The company I work for oversee's several local schools, the strategy
> they/we use has been windows in the classrooms, linux on the 'backbone'.

Interesting...4~5 years ago the few people I knew supporting schools
were all MS only......no one touched Linux.....how far we have come....

Makes you wonder just how much impact Linux is having on MS's server
share in the real SMB world (is it far further than we can see?) I guess
MS can see it overall, and I bet they wont be realeasing any figures.

> I personally would like to see more linux in classrooms, as that negates
> the, 'it costs more to train linux staff BS', with products like mandriva
> and suse being ideal candidates for workstation use.
> Mind you, in the background we are running SME on the servers, which is
> an rpm based distro from contribs.org, and (IMO) not as easy to admin as
> some of the other distros about, but it does have a funky web based
> frontend, which is why I think its being used

Give them vnc client and server on a windows desktop....they can have
their cake and eat it...

I rate webmin highly, its quite usable but the biggest advantage is it
runs on RH, Debian, Solaris (to name but 3) so you have a common
interface that is also secure, (ACLs etc) and allow various levels and
areas of admin.

regards

Thing

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In article <>,
> Stewart Fleming <> wrote:
>
>
>>http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_art...ame=Technology
>
>
> I keep wondering what will happen when the kids find out what kind of
> fun stuff there can be packed into a typical Linux distro. And SuSE is
> one of the more feature-laden ones...

Not to mention all the other GPL software out there.....a browse through
rpmfind.net and sourceforge reveals thousands of programs all
downloadable for free none of the warez cr*p.

regards

Thing