Off-Topic: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 03:59:25AM +0200, Knut Yrvin wrote: > Søndag 25 juni 2006 20:24, skrev José L. Redrejo Rodríguez: >
> On the technical part is quite a challenge, because it's gonna be > suited for learning. Things has to be light weight and in the same > instance be easy to use. I found this web page discussing memory > usage: > > http://kegel.com/linux/comfort/ [ Not much discussion. We all know OOo is a memory hog. News: Firefox is another one ] The OLPC is also an environment with practically no cache, so swapping out is just no an option. A memory hog won't spend time swapping out others. It would trigger an OOM kill. > > There is no memory that could handle OpenOffice.org on the > OLPC-machine. Interestingly this is an advantages in lower grades. > OpenOffice.org are made for bureaucratic work, and are suitable for > headmasters and the office workers at the schools. It's not a learning > tool made for teaching when the kids are 6-7 or 9 years old. They > really hate that application. A simple and easy to use text tool with > cool fonts and drawing capability is more in line for teaching > purposes when using computers for pupils in their four fist years at > school. [Preach-mode on] This is what a painting program is for. Not a writing tool. At schools we teach children to write. Yet nobody teaches them how to write a decent document. Hint: when you want to write a header you mark it as such. You don't simply enlarge font and use bold/underline. Not to mention the horrible MS-WordArt that is not even part of the standard text flow. Think of a document that could be understood by a blind reader. Or compoter. You should mark important parts as such. Not paint them. A computer is a tool for teaching in this context. It should not be a tool for "getting the children used to the tool". At least not when the two conflict. [Preach-mode off] Anyway: is abiword good enough? (kword seems to basically require much of the KDE infrastructure to work well. It should be interesting to test how it works without it). -- Tzafrir Cohen sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq#16849755 iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
