A School District's Education in Free Software

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david.jonathan.russe writes "The school district in Kamloops, BC, Canada has been working on a linux-based terminal infrastructure for several years. They now have a system in place district wide and they can not keep up with all of the requests for info. They have a great hybrid system, using diskless workstations all booting from local servers. 'The second-generation system cost the Kamloops district about $47,000 to implement, as well as the cost of training and the release time for personal study and taking exams. However, Ferrie has no doubt of the savings overall. License costs are disappearing as the district phases out its Novell NetWare licenses, and the district no longer needs to purchase productivity software. Ferrie also figures that the increased reliability represents a substantial savings, although he admits that it is hard to quantify. However, perhaps the greatest benefit of switching to free software is that the reliability of the new system frees up technical staff to do more than routine support.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by SourceForge.Read more of this story at Slashdot.




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[clintonherald]

I have seen the software & its good.I will say that students should buy it as soon as possible,it is a nice one to purchase.

[morrisbryan]

There are many institute are available they are provide higher education and facility to student, but their fees also very high. They are provide the all facilities related education and entertainment for the development of student.

[masonhills]

It's really good software for the learn some thing new, thanks for the share it. There are many other free software also available related education, I have always used free software and material from the online free website.