On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Roger <arelem@bigpond.com> wrote:

Students would and do happily use pure linux at home but -- 'school says No'
They are not permitted to use their own computers or usb sticks and virtualbox is bigNO.
Surveillance monitors the computers.
Hence the question originally posed.
Thanks anyway
Roger

I have seen this at both of my sons high schools (they attend different schools) they are not allowed to run *nix even off an external drive at school as they "may" circumvent the schools security, and the techs they employ seem to know very little about correctly setting up network security. (the proxy is set in Mozilla settings for example a knowledgeable student can circumvent this anyway)

 I don't know about the metro area but here in the country one HS has 250-300 students and my other sons HS has apx 1200 students. The schools only have a real tech once a week and the rest of the time routine admin stuff (adding accounts resetting passwords etc) is handled by teachers .
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