On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 01:34:25 +0200 (IST), Ely Levy wrote
> Hey,
> I wanted to raise a discussion about the intergation of linux on schools
> and kindergardens around israel.
> there are few questions that come to mind.

Well, the first thing that you'll need is localization. You need all the 
text, menus and buttons in hebrew, all the way, up and down, and currently 
the desktop enviroment who have it is KDE, and you need to use it in KIOSK 
mode (to make it unmodifiable by users).

After this, you'll need to check what can run with stuff like wine (either 
free wine or Crossover) - stuff like Comfy for kindergardens, and other 
software which school needs.

Then, you'll have the Office question. Open Office right now is not good 
enough for day to day usage with hebrew docs (and it needs to be translated 
to hebrew)..

The final hurdle is to handle all those kids who use and preffer today the MS 
way. It's not easy to convince people to switch (specially since the 
goverment paid for the MS licenses already)

Just my thoughts..
Thanks,
Hetz


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