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School Laboratory Management Blues - Dominique Cimafranca, Linux Journal

One of the main challenges in running a school computer laboratory is managing the software running on the different PCs allocated for use by students. System administrators face various scenarios, all stemming from the nature of a learning environment in which users all have superuser access to their machines. For example: Essential system programs might be inadvertently or maliciously deleted, thus bringing down an application or the operating system itself; or Installation of new applications might necessitate a change in some system libraries, thereby creating conflict with existing applications; or Classes that require scratch installations of an operating system may disrupt subsequent classes dealing with databases or web servers.

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