possibly putting Edubuntu in a local school

[leftyfb at left-click.org]

No reason they can't put content filtering on the Edubuntu server. There's
been talk about it being built in, i'm not sure if it yet. Even if it isn't,
it's very easy thing to implement with iptables or some OSS. Ignorant "IT" is
really something that gets to me.


---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Samuel Baldwin" <shardz4217 at gmail.com>
To: "Jason M Normand" <jay at lentecs.com>
Cc: ubuntu-us-ma at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:14:50 -0500
Subject: Re: possibly putting Edubuntu in a local school

> On 9/18/07, Jason M Normand <jay at lentecs.com> wrote:
> > Im guessing its like because of the filtering software they use on the
> > computers. Assuming windows only and policy like says it must be on all
> > computers. think of the recent case of the substitute who was arrested,
> > lots of bad publicity. Even if the IT guy knows its not a problem he
> > likely isnt the one making the policies.
> 
> Yeah, my school's fascist content blocker (blocks mp3, ogg, bash.org,
> everything fun). I booted to Knoppix to scan a computer in MCJROTC 
> for viruses, everything worked fine.
> 
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