Since you mentioned “punched cards” (hollerith cards??), I thought you might be interested in a post I made on the old UbuntuMATE web site:
The “custom card” service mentioned in that is accessible here:
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Hello, everyone!
For the past two years, I’ve been self-studying software engineering to get into the profession, coming from frontend initially (first year, through The Odin Project) and now spending much more time learning how UNIX-like operating systems work (OSTEP / “How Linux Works”), studying networking (“Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach”), simply exploring Linux by using Arch Linux daily etc.
I switched from Windows to Linux in 2021, when I sold my gaming laptop out of necessity and bought a super cheap 4GiB-RAM, 64GiB-SSD laptop. Installed Linux Mint on and used it for 3 or 4 years until I got my current ThinkPad T14 Gen1. Switched to Kubuntu immediately, used it for about a year and a half, and then switched to Arch to at last learn Linux properly. Can’t spend too much time on learning it though, sadly, but I dream of mastering it as much as possible in this lifetime and want to start contributing to the kernel eventually.
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Welcome to the community @afdlsafdsaf, and our forums! 
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Hi I am Anees I am new to linux distros and would love to learn and use them.
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Welcome to the community @Aneesmohammedalpy, thanks for joining us! 
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@afdlsafdsaf
Welcome to the forum community!
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@Aneesmohammedalpy
Welcome to the forum community!
We’re here to encourage you and everyone with their Linux experiences 
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Hi,
I’ve been teaching Computer/Software related subjects for years, I’ve used Linux sparingly in that time and have wanted to do more than install a distro and update it with students. Circumstance and life have always seemed to dictate otherwise.
I am trying to make time to learn how to setup a Linux server in order to give the students an alternative experience to Windows.
Hopefully I can find sufficient help etc here.
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Welcome to the community @dellawn, we’re glad you’re with us! 
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This is interesting! I’m pretty sure we can help.
Here’s some good reading to get started:
And feel free to post you progress as a possible Showcase or general share in General Discussions or if you have questions in our Help & Support category.
PS. Your avatar, is it our forum software that made it pixelated?
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I understand and appreciate a LOT about “circumstances”. While there’s a lot that I’m comfortable with, these days there’s probably so much more new stuff that I’ve not seen or used and have no knowledge of whatsoever.
The Linux server experience will most certainly be different than the Windows Server experience and the same is true on the desktop. Though in recent years Windows has added a Power Shell that is similar in content to a Linux experience and there are virtual Linux capabilities possible, it’s definitely not the same thing, so I’m sure you’ll find useful information to add to your personal experience.
Here’s my warm welcome to our forum community @dellawn !
Best wishes in your Linux endeavors - maybe Endeavour OS would be a good place to visit!
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Welcome to the Community, @dellawn !
I am sure that there must be Linux advocates in your very “neighbourhood” who would be only too happy to assist with that kind of project!
Also, you may not think it possible, but some of those Linux “expert mechanics” could be of high-school age and be eager to contribute to just such a “real” project!
If you have some peer Educator contacts in local, or nearby, schools, they could very well refer you to specific “young wizards” who would be within reach.
If not, your Country’s, or State/Province Linux User Group would certainly be an excellent contact for seeking
- expert guidance,
- free-access resources, and
- willing volunteers to assist, and maybe even steer, the efforts
to set up your
- Computer-Assisted Learning (CAL) environment
- Custom-software Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Linux deployment and test lab
- OSS-based hardware development lab
depending on the scope of what you are trying to achieve!
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Bonjour je m’appel thierry et je suis nouveau dans le monde de linux et j’utilise Anduin os
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Bonjour Thierry!
À noter que je suis, moi-même, francophone.
Vous constaterez que, sur ce site, l’anglais sert de langue principale afin de faciliter les échanges.
L’usage de l’anglais vous permettra d’attirer d’avantage de réponses à vos questions, et d’autant plus si vous utilisez un outil comme Google Translate pour faciliter la traduction de vos messages à l’anglais, suivit d’une révision pour vous assurer qu’ils reflètent fidèlement ce que vous souhaitez demander ou décrire.
J’espère que cette approche vous conviendra.
Bienvenue dans la communauté ! La diversité de nos expériences nous permettent de vivre à l’image du dicton “L’union fait la force!”
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Bienvenue dans la communauté @Thierry, ravi de vous compter parmi nous!
Welcome to the community @Thierry, good to have you here!
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Hi @dellawn and a warm welcome to the Linux community!
I can’t give much more advice than that already offered, but I think the simplest way to give them some experience (quick and dirty) is to just use a bootable USB with an ISO.
The students could be taught how to download the ISO onto their own USB. Running Linux from a USB saves all the installation kerfuffle and provides a simple user experience. It also means they could take it home and install Linux on the family computer 
(They could do this anyway, without your help, so it wouldn’t be your fault if parents complained.)
The downside is that you have no control over what they use and you may have to change the BIOS settings on all your classroom PCs. What they download on their own USBs might also be a problem.
Alternatively, if you are setting up a central server, i.e. some “out-of-reach” computer somewhere (maybe a NAS or JBOD for instance) that you can manage yourself with the following advantages:
- you’re in total control,
- you can manage user accounts,
- do updates when you want,
- ensure security etc)
Then your server will need plenty of resources, especially RAM, probably easier in the long term to use Docker to containerise your Linux installation, you’ll most likely want a “headless” version, which will give you Linux but without needing a monitor, keyboard or mouse.
All your interaction with it will be over SSH, i.e. you and the students will need to use ssh -Y to enable graphics forwarding. (Which is something to read up about).
As @ericmarceau rightly points out, your students may well be a hive of information on Linux anyway. Making a project out of it instead of doing it all by yourself could be fun. But, obviously, be very careful about security! Too many cooks could spoil the broth 
.
Good luck and keep us informed! 
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Helloo I am Limon! I am an animation student, really loved technology (from afar) and now I am trying to learn a bit more about software and computing, just for fun. I put Linux mint in a computer to help make it less slow and now I want to turn my current laptop into a dual boot one! I would love to learn more of code and sistems. But my strong area is artistic stuff. I especially love 3D!!
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Welcome to the community @limon_z, great to have you join us!
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Translation: Hello my name is thierry and I am new to the world of linux and I use Anduin os
Greetings @Thierry and welcome to our forum; I know a few words of French, but not enough to handle a dialogue so I used a translation service; if you read and write only French maybe you can do the same; I can see Eric and a few others DO know French so that’s great. Warm welcome despite our language barrier!
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I’m Brian and I am a retired software engineer, I’m glad you’re here and we are a warm, welcoming community here.
You may be a student, but you already know more about animation than I’ll ever know. Perhaps some of us know other things and one of us - who knows, maybe even me - will have an answer or an idea that will be helpful to you, and likewise, I’m sure there are a number of things that you’ll quickly gain expertise in that only a few of us will know, so hopefully our cooperative attitudes and responses will help all of us, young and old, learn something - diversity, whether it’s age, language, culture, whatever diverse and different things we know, we can help one another; I ALWAYS look forward to and love such exchanges!
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