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Want a free Chromebook? All you have to do is take a Linux course offered by the Linux Foundation and its yours. The offer is from Sept first to the thirtieth so if you want a Dell Chromebook with a 1.4Ghz CPU and 4GB of RAM for free? Best grab one ASAP.
Keep in mind when siging up for these courses, while the Chromebooks are free, the courses most certainly are not. According to the Class Schedule posted on the Linux Foundation site, prices range from $0 (Introduction to Linux) to $2500 and up for most everything else.
Promotion Eligibility:
This promotion is available to anyone who purchases either a scheduled or elearning Linux Foundation training course between September 1, 2015 and September 30, 2015.
The following purchases are not eligible for this promotion:
- Free courses (such as the edX LFS101x course)
- The India-only LFS201/LFCS Bundle
- Corporate training
- Linux Foundation Events
- Discounted instances of LFS201 Essentials of System Administration and related bundles
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday September 06 2015, @04:11PM
The applications are all in O how I hate this term The Cloud. How many cloud service providers release source? Of those that do how many comply with the Free Software Definition?
The Linux Foundation should not be encouraging use of Chromebooks; there are all kinds of ways they could give away notebook computers with all Open Source or Free Software.
It's much like Caltech's initiative to teach computer programming to every Institute student starting in 1983 or so. IBM gave us five million dollars in "Funny Money": real money provided we used it only to purchase IBM products.
True-Blue IBM PCs really ARE quite nice but really we should have been exposed to other kinds of computers.
In the Spring of 1984 I enrolled in, then in the Fall of 1984 I taught Physics 20, Computational Physics. We all told our students "Use any language you please. The only requirement is that you credibly complete a computer model of some physical phenomenon by the end of the quarter."
I learned BASIC, FORTRAN, C and 16-bit x86 assembly code; in CS 10 I learned Pascal. My ex-girlfriend "Cipher" used APL - one can numerically solve a differential equation with a one-character operator. She went on to become a Cryptologist for the NSA. I'm not supposed to know that but Cipher made the mistake of posting her work address on our alumni directory site.
Today, Physics 20 uses MATLAB and that's it.
The whole point of Ph 20 when I was a Techer was to enable us to develop programs like MATLAB, not learn how to use software someone else wrote.
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