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A comment on Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by jimbokun on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:05AM (#13782871)
But will the average school be able to afford and administer servers For every student to ssh into?
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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by baldfat on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:56AM (#13783232)
One server and one instance could easily do one class if not hundreds of students. Actually to have it done with a container would be very cheap and wouldn't require a high tier server. So it would cost less to do Chromebooks with a server for instances when they need more horse power or build tools.
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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by illumin8 on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:17AM (#13783378)
Why would they need to? https://c9.io
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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by fuzzybeard on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:10AM (#13783326)
It should be cheaper than giving full desktops/laptops to students. After all, it consolidates all the computer power. The pendulum is swinging back to mainframes. Have 1 server for all the students and spin up VMs or a single Linux instance.
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