Intersting to find out, but does anyone know what demand there is for unix / linux skills iin the workplace? I know this may be off topic but then the whole thread has shifted into getting linux into schools, so I just wondered, wouldnt it be good to feel fully armed with all the basics of computing including some awareness of unix and linux before leaving school?
I say this beacuse I have no recollection of linux in my school years, we had BBC's and the odd apple macintosh (which I supppose is as close to unix as I got) but then it was all gui based and I never had any concept of root, sudo and what a shell was until I was well into my twenties and that was through experimentation, in fact everything since secondary school was IBM compatible PC's running Windows in various forms, (95/98 on a Novell Netware back end I beleive it was at college.) The thing is unless you have parents who are into FOSS then all you are fed is MS, and you begin to beleive by the time you leave school that MS is the only operating system as the famous quote "I'm a PC", yeah well so am I but I run Linux on my PC thanks all the same. :D
_______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
