Last week I upgraded my motherboard and cpu, a yearly ritual for me now. Arch Linux is now the main system that I run on this desktop. Gentoo/Funtoo will be there for testing (Funtoo is really fun to play with). I will also test Pardus, a Turkish linux distribution. It may be a good distro to use in the educational setting.
Below are some pictures of me adding the new hardware:
(My tower with the old motherboard removed)
(The P43-series Gigabyte motherboard)
(I just installed the new motherboard in the tower)
(After I installed the new core 2 quad cpu and 4 Gigs of RAM)
(The finished system)
Why would you go for Pardus for educational purposes?
Don’t take me wrong, it’s probably a good distro in its own right, but…
You are already teaching them Linux, which is already quite marginally used. Choosing a distro that is marginally used already within the Linux world is, I’d say, inflicting an unnecessary amount of pain and suffering on your students for no particular reason.
I would say stick to Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian… any of the actual major ones, with a standard package management system that gives them knowledge they can bring with them somewhere else…
Ultimately it’s your decision, of course.
@Urko: That choice is not mind but Pardus has a great reputation in Turkey. Since it is localized for Turkish speakers, naturally they would go for that distro versus, per se, Ubuntu. It is their choice, not mind.
I am using Ubuntu in my class but I now regret the choice.
Hey Kevin, is it cost a lot to buy computer parts in Viet Nam?
New parts, yeah, a bundle sometimes. If it is cheap, they are imitations from China. Bring parts from the US.
@Kevin: but I thought you were teaching in HCMC?
Why do you regret choosing Ubuntu?