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Pennsylvania High School Rolls Out 1,700 Linux Laptops to Students

• mikestew 13y ago
  "Pennsylvania High School"? Let's hope they turned the webcams off this time[0]. [0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/schools-spied-on-students-webcams http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/schools-spied-o...
• brudgers 13y ago
  Installing Ubuntu 13.10 rather than the LTS12.4 shows the way in which it is easy to create technical debt with Linux via lack of expertise. Linux rewards knowledge but. mercilessly punishes poor upfront decisions. Now the school district faces upgrading all those laptops before the end of their service life.
  • gizmo686 13y ago
    That doesn't seem like that big of I problem. I've done in-place point upgrades of Ubuntu several times without any issue, and I can't think of anything out of the ordinary that the school would want to do with the laptops that would make an in-place upgrade difficult.
  • serge2k 13y ago
    Given that they gave everyone sudo access they don't seem that concerned with stability/security. Which means that going with the latest over LTS isn't necessarily a bad thing.
    • superuser2 13y ago
      > they don't seem that concerned with stability/security Security of what? This was the right call. Students should absolutely be able to do what they want with their machines. These aren't servers where users' sudo access would let them interfere with other tenants. If something gets broken, IT can just reimage.