[NBLUG/talk] Chromebooks in schools?

[E Frank Ball III]

Chromebooks have terminals and ssh, but no vim :(

I need three things:  browser, ssh, & vim.

   E Frank Ball          frankb at frankb.us

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:22:11PM -0400, Zack Gold wrote:
 >    My experience with Chromebook, while not school-related, has been similar
 >    to that of claustrophobia. You are limited to your capabilities under the
 >    Chromebook, strictly to the browser, so you're unable to go beyond the
 >    flexibility of the browser itself.
 > 
 >    On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Steve S. <[1]northbaygeek at gmail.com>
 >    wrote:
 > 
 >      Not quite a general Linux query, but...
 > 
 >      Has anyone had experience bringing Chromebooks to a school? **The
 >      latest generations seem to include reasonably-priced models that
 >      aren't pure POS units...
 > 
 >      My youngest's elementary-school uses Google's educational "walled
 >      garden" and I'd expect the Chromebook to Play Well there. **The latest
 >      ChromeOS is also supposed to have available (or about to, I'm not
 >      sure) the kinds of parental controls needed for elementary-school
 >      students.
 > 
 >      I'm also curious if anyone knows of any grants/etc that could help
 >      getting them in sufficient quantity that each student could have
 >      one...
 > 
 >      Any info/pointers/etc gratefully accepted!
 > 
 >      - Steve S.
 > 
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 >      childishness and the desire to be very grown up." ** ** **-CS Lewis
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 >    Zack Gold
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