![]() ![]() When it comes down to it, Windows is a window manager with WordPad, Web browser and Email - Linux has all of that and more," he said. "Once the students see how much they can customize and tweak KDE desktop and play with Beryl 3D desktop, they like Linux more than Windows. While Montgomery believes the kids will get their work done on Linux desktops just as they would on any other computer, he disagrees with observations that older children prefer Windows as they tend to be more familiar with it. ![]() The secondary students also enjoy tweaking KDE, as well as using OpenOffice, drafting, art, multimedia and Web applications. Intermediate level students favor Web apps, OpenOffice, Tuxmath, Supertux, Pingus, Tux Racer, and playing with the look and feel of their desktop environment - KDE. Montgomery said the youngest students particularly enjoy Tux Paint, Web apps tailored for younger kids, Gcompris and the Supertux game. The elementary and secondary schools in District #73 utilize a range of software tailored to the kids' ages and learning levels. "We get better support with open source software: online wikis, forums, mailing lists etc are much faster and better to get support than phoning up Microsoft and listening to someone read off answers from flash cards." Montgomery said the district uses considerably more open source than proprietary software. This beats ghosting Windows hard drives," he said. In 15 minutes I can update OpenOffice on thousands of diskless workstations. I can also cluster the servers and issue the update. "Diskless only requires updating the server and the entire school gets the update. The image is based on Debian because the deb packaging system makes it very easy to upgrade the software," said Dean Montgomery, network support technician and programmer for District #73. Now the elementary schools are moving to Linux as well. "It was successful and the rest of the schools started lining up to get the new Linux system. The district completely rebuilt its server model for the high schools, starting at Barriere Secondary School where students, teachers and office admin staff switched to diskless Linux desktops. In mid 2006 it moved over to Debian because it is significantly easier to keep up-to-date. The district's elementary schools were the first to receive modified LTSP computers which initially ran on Red Hat. The largest Linux implementation is running close to 200 diskless clients in a single school. The district opted for a majority of open source software as it is easier to maintain and in their experience offers better access to support.Īpproximately 30-60 diskless Linux workstations are used in the computer labs and libraries of every school in the district, in addition to 2-5 Windows workstations in special needs rooms. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Kamloops Thompson School District #73 is comprised of 55 elementary and secondary schools in British Columbia, Canada. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. ![]() If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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