New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I was conscripted into teaching a Python course for high school students back at my old job at a university. I booted all the mac minis in the classroom to a live CD of Porteus with a bunch of custom packages on it. I had them save their data back to my laptop, acting as a shared file server. At the end of each class, I'd just reboot the classroom machines.
It meant a fresh Linux environment each class session, and the whole live CD ran in RAM, so performance was excellent.
Worked like a charm.
Free shells played a huge role in teaching me UNIX, back when I was just discovering it. I had a local UNIX box but a lot of the commands I was learning from books made less sense until I experienced a real live multi-user system. And besides, they're a lot of fun!