Re: [K12OSN] planning a Linux course for next year

[Steve Wright <paua quicksilver net nz>]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:15, William Stanard wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm planning to offer a Linux course next year, and I'd like to do some
> planning. We are a wireless Windows laptop school. I will have a course of
> about 6 to 10 secondary students. 
>
> Question 1: What mix of Linux running on laptops only (dual boot), Linux
> on a server with students logging in remotely via their Windows laptops,
> or other system configurations do you recommend?


knoppix is the easy way.  Simply create a persistent home directory on your laptop win partition, and boot a knoppix CD.


> Question 2: What web-available tutorials do you recommend for newbie high
> school students?


there are simply millions of these.  You will need to decide exactly what you want to do, and then put in a good half-day on google.  You should have everything you need after that.


hth,
Steve