What about making a Fedora for education. You could have 2 versions. An easy to use and learn version like the Suger OS found on the OLPC. And another that is closer to a windows desktop. It would be much cheaper for schools to upgrade to a free and open source OS and the community and help available would help a lot. I know I have spoken to a few schools who were very interested in an open source OS made for education uses.
[Matt]^_^ ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:15:55 +0530 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Small Businesses WILL need a Red Hat Linux suited for them!!! > > Matt Strawder wrote: >> I belive that if a small business solution were to be made from Red Hat, it >> would have to be easy to switch from a server edition to a desktop edition. >> It would have to have all Open Office apps including all fonts and picture >> options (Things like word art and pic art). The desktop would also need to >> be very very close to windows. All options would have to be in the same >> position. All menus organised the same way. An idea might also be to have a >> school edition. I know I have had a couple schools run on Linux destros and >> I had to point them to Ed instead of Fedora because Edubuntu is made for >> schools. These are just my opinions and I have worked more with schools than >> small business as far as getting people to use Linux. >> > > Folks, this is really not the place to discuss Red Hat product > decisions. We don't really have any input on that process and it is > purely a internal product management decision. Unless the discussion is > really specific to marketing Fedora and how you can contribute, it does > not belong in this list. > > Rahul > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list _________________________________________________________________ Earn cashback on your purchases with Live Search - the search that pays you back! http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=earncashback -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
