Thought this was pretty interesting. Tim Riley works in Australia and has recently set up a computer lab at Pembroke School in Adelaide, South Australia to run exclusively on Ubuntu Linux. This lab is used primarily by students years 8 to 10.
A later blog entry at 88 MPH seems to echo Pembroke’s success–
wara, a teacher at Grant High School (another South Australian school) writes about their success switching to Ubuntu for a computer recycling project: “[Ubuntu] is just the bees knees for a computer that will be used for basic office and student type tasks. It installs very very easily and comes with Open Office and Gimp already installed. Our learning curve suddenly seems manageable again.”
Sidenote– Is that a nice classroom or what? Do we have ANY schools that nice here?
I would just like to say that i have been at that school since before they built that lab and while initally they had dual boot between linux and windows from memory it was red hat.
and now those computers run soley windowx xp. They were never used by sudents as far as i know in anything else.
Comment by Phil Brown — April 1, 2008 @ 1:04 am
Interesting– The original story seemed legitimate. If you’re right, that’s kinda sad. Guess those students learn how operating systems really work the same way I did, teaching one’s self.
Comment by WirelessMike — April 1, 2008 @ 6:55 am
And now that I think of it, if the lab pictured is indeed the lab you’re referring to, those are unquestionably ubuntu login screens, which is proof they did have ubuntu on them at some time or they were each running ubuntu off a live cd.
Comment by WirelessMike — January 7, 2009 @ 9:30 pm