On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: > 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).
Not true, I know a lot of schools who uses english version of windows. It depend on what age you aim for, if you looking at kindergarden kids then if it's hebrew english or japanise doesn't matter much, then need big pictures. anyhow if you don't give menus then you don't need to translate them, a lot of schools just use specific programs and don't ask kids to press on things, something like load office or web browser. and the less they know the better. > 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. The question is what programs do they need? searching for replacements is better than wine. also solve them the problem of kids playing games on school;) > 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).. it is translated to hebrew and it would soon have full hebrew support. koffice is the same, gnome 2.2 works nicely with hebrew I heard. > 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) Kids doesn't need to prefer, kids learn, schools uses novell for example you don't see them not using it cause kids might not know how to log in they just teach them. and btw novell is all english. > Just my thoughts.. > Thanks, > Hetz > Ely ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
