I'll tell you that I am planning on going 'school-wide' with Linux. But it's a gradual process. and we're a small organization. In our school, we have one computer lab with 20 machines and about 3-4 machines in every classroom. The lab is completely linux now, with all but two of t eh machines bootable to Windows. With the kids, when they hit 7th grade, they're mine and I teach them linux right away. They love it. The teachers are different. Even though I taught them how to boot into linux or windows in the pre-school inservice, most of them can't get tha figured out. then, when it comes to having them find a word processing document or even surf the internet, they have problems. Still, as we get new machines, these linux machines are going to be forced into the classrooms and they are going to have to learn how to use them. Eventually they will. They learned windows when I pushed out the macs. It wasn't much different. As far as teh different window managers and versions of linux, they are not that different. Last year, we used redhat on a couple of machines. This year, the kids that did that new exactly how to use mandrake. Some of the kids use gnome, some use kde, some use blackbox. They seem to take that transition easily. Then again, my business is teaching. I have all year to do that. jim Quoting Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not sure I truly understand the advantages of all these different > flavors of linux. I understand that Debian is the super secure, and > Mandrake is the super friendly, and Redhat is enterprise oriented. But what > I find is that flavors mean non-standard directories and other nuances. > The > only "linux" part of a flavor is the kernel. This is actually pretty > annoying because one can never truely say "I know linux" in a deep sense; > all one really knows is one's particular flavor of linux. My impression is > that if you switched flavors on somebody they would be nearly as lost as > they would be if you switched their PC for a MAC even though it's still > "linux". Is this flavor thing good for linux in a long term sense? > > This goes for window managers too: if the Window Manager is the gateway to > the system switching WMs on somebody is pretty close to switching the OS on > them. > > One of the main reasons that I bring this up is if you were to choose to > deploy linux desktops for your company, you should probably think long an > hard about the flavor and the WM that you are going to standardize on > because if you let people run different WMs willy nilly (much less flavors) > it would be a adminstrative nightmare. > > You can't really count (never will be able to count) on any baseline > functionality of access points amongs WMs can you...? > > Has anyone deployed linux desktop company-wide before? Do you have any > juicey stories to tell about what worked and what didn't? > > > >
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