[NBLUG/talk] Chromebooks in schools?

[Zack Gold]

tmux, too. And lynx!


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:41 AM, E Frank Ball III <frankb at frankb.us> wrote:

> 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.
>  >
>  >      --
>  >      "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the
> fear of
>  >      childishness and the desire to be very grown up." ** ** **-CS Lewis
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>  >    Zack Gold
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Zack Gold
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