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Linux should be a part of School Education
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Re: Linux should be a part of School Education
#112My school used Windows for everything. I remember when in year 7 (6th grade) I was complaining about the computers to my IT teacher, as many do. His response was "there is another way!". A few days later, he found me and gave me a Linux live CD with Knoppix on it. I remember it claimed to have 2GB of software, compressed into the 700MB a CD could hold. I could put it in my family computer at home, and without install…
Ah Knoppix. I remember how blown away I was when I first ran the Live CD; at that time I had no idea it was even possible. It's a shame that it faded from popularity once Ubuntu came along.
I really think Live CDs are one of the best educational tools for those that already have an interest in computers. Even better now would be one that was integrated with some online services like Dropbox (or Ubuntu One?) to get some basic persistence to make things like learning to code more possible on it.
Re: Linux should be a part of School Education
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Joke on you. I don't have smartphone, car, STB and TV. Maybe I do but there are 7 billion people in the world.
> * don't have smartphone, car, STB and TV. * It's more likely that you have a smartphone rather than a PC. It's more likely you have an old, unused smartphone than that you have and old unused PC for paying with operating systems. If you are writing software, it's more likely you are targeting a Linux instance running in a VM at a hosting service or a smartphone, than a Windows PC.
Yes, world is changing fast. I bought my first smartphone in 2008 (if Nokia E51 Symbian can be considered smartphone). That's 6 years ago.
In previous 10 years I had access to PCs (usually Windows).