Bloomington North's Linux Initiative in the News

[Simon Ruiz]

Scott,
 
Well, our XP machines are pretty strictly locked down by our corporate IS people, and the software vandalism is minimal.
 
On our Ubuntu machines, because all the students log into a generic student account there are a few problems when a student modifies the interface beyond the point where the next student can use it. Mostly accidental, it's really not as common a problem as one might expect.
 
My solution is to set it up so that, during the boot process all the student preferences are removed and a fresh copy is put in place.
 
Besides that small issue, I've never had a problem with any vandalism outside the home directory.

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From: los2chapines at gmail.com on behalf of Scott Ledyard
Sent: Thu 3/1/2007 3:15 PM
To: Simon Ruiz
Subject: Re: Bloomington North's Linux Initiative in the News


Simón,
I know what you mean about that "badly put together" SUSE thing. When I first was experimenting with older machines on Linux I installed Ubuntu (4.10 I think) and SUSE 10 and was amazed at how much slower the same machine was using SUSE. As you said, it just had way too much stuff. Ubuntu was the clear winner.

Are the Ubuntu machines pretty resilient in your high school? Software vandalism (deleted files, spyware, etc.) is a pretty big problem in our high schools PCs running XP. 

Scott