1.3 School Account

The college provides a Linux account for this class. If you decide not to use it, that's fine. This account is accessible from the internet, which means you can do your homework assignments wherever you have internet access. The bandwidth requirement is minimal, as you only need text terminals.

You can use the school account as a repository of your homework files. In other words, you can use the Knoppix CD offline to work on assignments at home, and then go online and sync the files with the remote account when you want to shutdown the PC. This way, you can continue to work on the assignments wherever you go.