Hi Lars, Lars Noodén wrote: > sophie wrote: >> For information, 55 000 laptops will be distributed to students and >> teachers in one department of France (Oise). They will be prepared with >> OpenOffice.org. > > Tremendous. > >> Unfortunately they will be under Vista, but they have a >> lot of free educational resources on them. > > That part is an unmitigated disaster. I run into students all the time > that got stuck with Vista on cheap-ass laptops. It causes no end of > pain and disappointment for them. Eventually either they end up > "finding" XP somewhere, something I don't condone either -- there is > never a legit excuse to allow Windows -- or they eventually end up > "dual" boot with Ubuntu or Fedora. I put the dual in quotes because > once Linux is on there, MS Vista is seldom used -- it sucks to badly -- > and eventually leaves the disk.
I fully agree with you. > > Here are some quick fixes for the Vista problems that will improve the > performance of OOo and other applications: > > http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first.htm > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot > http://apcmag.com/why_vistas_such_a_pain_to_dualboot.htm > > There might be French equivalents of the above links somewhere. With > care, we can avoid the suckitude of Vista dragging down legitimate > software. Thank you for the links, I'll keep them bookmarked. > >> This operation is known as Ordi60 in France and we were waiting for the >> results since some time now. After USB Key in Ile de France (220 000), >> CDs in Auvergne (64 000), this is the third department to provide OOo to >> their students! > > I remember the announcement of the USB key project. What were the results? Great, there is a dedicated site where the Key is maintained, with forums, documentations and so on, see: http://www.campusb.fr/communaute/ I met the webmasters last year and they were very happy with the results. > >> An article in French can be found here >> http://www.silicon.fr/fr/news/2009/01/23/55_000_collegiens_equipes_d_un_ordinateur_portable_dans_l_oise_ > > I've made a link from the Major OpenOffice.org Deployments wiki page, it > may need correcting: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments#Europe Thank you! Kind regards Sophie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
