Le mar 02/03/2004 � 13:04, Sajith VK a �crit : > And me: > I am From India, and am trying to spread the news of > Free Softwares here. Several school teachers have shown interest > in Free Softwares. > Several school teachers complainted about unavailablity of > Educational softwares in the Distrbutions they uses. So I searched > a lot for an Education GNU/Linux. Freeduc from ofset seems tobe > good for demonstration, but not enough for our schools.
Hello, I am one of the guy behind Freeduc-cd from OFSET (http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd). I want to emphasis that the Freeduc-cd project has been supported by the UNESCO. You are absolutely true when you say Freeduc is good for demonstration. We have developped Freeduc-cd (since 2002) for this exact purpose to let know to the teacher which education oriented applications are available out there. Also as we wanted to emphasis the application and not the Desktop we have choosen a light but consistant Desktop (XFCE 3). The Desktop has been set up so it is usable in various European language, you just need to set (knoppix lang=xx) at the boot time (Where xx can be fr, it, en, es, de, nl, cs) In Freeduc you will find very unique feature as embedded WIMS server (http://wims.unice.fr) to manage virtual mathematic classroom, a dictionnary server and a wide range of application as some cool one as Xrmap (a simple but effective SIG). For an almost complete list of applications see the page at http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd. There you will find documentation At OFSET we would have been happy to see other cooperating with us to produce the next Freeduc-cd but we did not fully succeed in that. However we are very interested cooperating with Skolelinux because it bring a complementary answer to Freeduc-cd. Please Sajith considers cooperating if you found it relevant. Best regards, Hilaire -- CDDP des Landes Ing�nierie �ducative 614, rue du Ruisseau - BP 401 40012 Mont de Marsan Cedex T�l. 05.58.75.50.10 http://crdp.ac-bordeaux.fr/cddp40
