| Art Alexion on 19 Jan 2008 08:11:09 -0800 |
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On Friday 18 January 2008 21:14:20 James Barrett wrote: > I was thinking Edubuntu Edubuntu is tuned for a lab and may be a good choice. My "enlightened" company permits parents with childcare issues to bring their kids to work whenever they want. It is officially discouraged but in practice permitted and enabled. In the beginning of last summer, the kids were running wild. To keep them quiet, the mothers gave the kids their login credentials and had the kids sit at the desks of coworkers out for the day. This was very bad and dangerous. So in an act of discouraging while enabling, we commandeered a conference room and equipped it with an old, mostly obsolete box and a laptop with a broken screen (using an external monitor). I installed edubuntu and used the included lockdown utilities. In our famously open environment, this conference room (unlike the others) has curtains, and the door is usually shut. There is no adult supervision. Other than setting up the machines, none of this has anything to do with the IT department, and the thought of it makes me cringe, but... In the 7 or 8 months its been up, they have managed to break the keyboard on the laptop, break the table, and cause a 40 lb. monitor to fly across the room, but the software build on the computers has remained solid and has not needed any maintenance at all. Attachment:
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