From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tsai, Hong-Bin" Subject: Re: Why should we teach students Linux?? Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:16:13 +0800 Message-ID: <3befbf920703051816v4554a516q45b460d4ffbab8fc@mail.gmail.com> References: <45ECC116.3000608@rcn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mwNIWS5izjbsfYO8S2VSwI31sp+Y7fnR+NYAd654pEev7DlbKT8/y7sd0aHAaxHfwg3HbOerI+RE0v4apGpQ7gMRqoxSpL/1Au0OHLctr4rWkNNigAuDE3DA1YvWF5f8/iARAS9Yzl4UUYV0Lg5Wks3Kl0gHy9B4wE6D9ACzw48= In-Reply-To: <45ECC116.3000608@rcn.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: John Aspinall Cc: Jarmo , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Well, I don't think it's meaningless, actually, it's quite serious and important. M$ windows has dominated the OS market for long, and they still do. The worst thing is, they keep their little secret in a black box. To kids in school, they have to know a world beyond M$ empire. It's an open society that people can learn, share, and talk freely. To CS students in college, they have to learn Operating System. Linux (or say, UNIX-family) as an open box is a great material. On 3/6/07, John Aspinall wrote: > Jarmo forwarded: > > >> knows a link/document about why we should educate our students in the > >> Linux OS, please send it. Or article about the usage of Linux in > >> company's. > > This is a completely meaningless question until we know what kind of > students. Elementary computer science? Operating system design? > Software business and marketing? Anthropology (like the recent survey > here)? Elementary school? High school? Undergraduate? Post-graduate? > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- Best regards, Hong-Bin blog: http://furseal.wordpress.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs