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by core-questions
2101 days ago
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My secondary school used Free Software exclusively. In 1996. That meant Debian on desktops (in classrooms, 486s with boot floppies and 10MB LAN mounting root over NFS and then XDMCP'ing over to a bigger X server; in the offices and computer labs, Pentiums with local installations, still sharing /home over NFS). StarOffice was used for everything. We learned Perl in Grade 9 and had our own ~username websites. I ran a LambdaMOO. I didn't realize how extraordinary this was until I visited a school with locked-down Windows NT 4.0 workstations and began to understand how amazing of a perk I had by having a computer teacher who pushed for this, against the wishes of more conventional teachers who wanted the safe option. FVWM95 was a godsend in this regard - we could fool some people into thinking they were just on a weird variety of Windows. I credit my career to this choice and wish I could find the teacher to thank him, but he has a John Smith tier name making him impossible to track down. |
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