Re: OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?

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From: Andrew Smallshaw
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:36

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On 2012-03-09, Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <4f59a5a8$0$6882$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, usenet+5@c-
> scape.nl says...
>> 
>> > A classromm with computers already why get out wall warts (which at
>> > least one kid will trouser as he could do with one or thjinks it will be
>> > cool).
>> >
>> > A classroom with other computers already there teacher does not have
>> > to hand out an extra thing.
>> 
>> If the classroom already has computers, you don't need to get the 
>> Raspberry Pi at all. Just let the kids use the regular computers.
>
> Yes you do as IT services will not allow loading of packet sniffers
> practicals with network addressing, subnets and a myriad of other things 
> done to those systems.

It's only a couple of years since I did my CCNA at the local college
as evening classes.  Their solution was quite simple: each time
you do an IT refresh keep back twenty or thirty old machines for
the tinkering classes.  If a clean OS install is needed the student
does it themselves at the start of the class restoring from a Norton
Ghost image on DVD.  Any network infrastructure or servers needed
for the class is similarly set up at the start of the class.  This
was for all the courses, not just Cisco.

That worked quite well for them, where each class was at least a
couple of hours but I've imagine set up and tear down would take
up too much time for schools where a lesson is only an hour or
thereabouts.

-- 
Andrew Smallshaw
andrews@sdf.lonestar.org

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