>>>>> "Venky" == D Venkatasubramanian <D.Venkatasubramanian> writes:
Venky> Hi,
>> Promoting a mix of Linux and DOS/Windows weakens our case
>> significantly
Venky> since it
>> projects Linux as an incomplete and consequently undesirable
>> solution.
Venky> You do have a point there, but remember, people are against
Venky> change. And it is better to have people getting started on
Venky> Linux via a dual boot environment than to get people to
Venky> totally ignore Linux. Believe me, if they are already
Venky> unwilling to change and you push Linux, it could just make
Venky> people who would otherwise have someday switched to Linux,
Venky> totally against such an option. The first impression is
Venky> generally the most important, and making one when you are
Venky> unwilling will be disastrous. Why not highlight the
Venky> strengths of Linux. Use Windows 98 and RH 7.2. I really
Venky> believe, KDE 2 is wonderful. Also, we can highlight the
Venky> different GUIs. Tell them, they have choices rather than
Venky> the monotony of one GUI on Windows. You can convince people
Venky> in schools easily by that kind of reasoning. Show people
Venky> stuff like, see the pictures are previewed in the explorer
Venky> itself, stuff like that. XP hasn't still caught on, so we
Venky> could really change opinions. School teachers are generally
Venky> impressed by stuff like GUI characteristics rather than
Venky> security or things like that. Also, we could easily provide
Venky> them with dosemu kind of stuff also.
I was hoping to have a distribution which the school could just plug
in and say, `OK, we have everything we need, goodbye Windows'.
Whether that is (a) achievable and (b) desirable, I don't know and
welcome comments and opinions.
Let's continue this discussion on the Linux for Schools mailing list.
Announcement in next post.
>> There's RHIDE for Linux, which (from the one screenshot I saw)
>> appears to look and work exactly like Turbo C. Anyone willing
>> to evaluate that in terms of usefulness to schools?
Venky> Could you send the rpms or tar or the location.
Uh, try www.rhide.com :-)
Venky> Regards,
Venky> Venky
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Man, this sucks! Please get a free e-mail from any of the web-mail
providers and use that. I guess I'm liable to be arrested and thrown
in the cooler for a month just for reading this quasi-legel POS and
replying to it ;-)
Regards,
-- Raju
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