Potential School Wide Linux Implementation

[Eberhard Roloff]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 
> Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> 
>> LTSP simplifies administration for you.  Make a change once and all
>> workstations get it on their next boot.  No more visiting individual
>> workstations to apply patches or configurations.  Once you get
>> comfortable with it, you can do groups of workstations or customize each
>> one.
> 
> I'd strongly recommend rolling this out as a change in, say, a lab, or a 
> few classrooms first. You may be surprised at the pushback you get with 
> such a change.
> 
> People tend to be very hostile to any change, not necessarily because 
> it's not Windows (although you will probably get that since students and 
> teachers will go home and do things that will "confuse" them when they 
> come back into the classroom) but because it's just "Different".
> 
> You may end up with kids and teachers equating their tiny "frustrations" 
> with the word "kubuntu" or "linux".
> 
related to this, you might consider to read this:
http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Dealing_With_Uncooperative_Tech_Staff

imho, "Tech_Staff" in this context, could also be anyone else that does 
not know anything beyond Windows.

kind regard
Eberhard Roloff