On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: > 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.
One useful resource: http://www.seul.org/edu/ > > > > 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). Right. Full localization of the working environment the (child) user normally works with is normally needed. Except for English and such programs, that is. And that working environment may be even a dedicated application, in some cases. > > 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. What are the minimal system requirements of such a desktop? One possible "selling-point" of linux is the price: not only comes free, but also allows you to use recent software with relatively old hardware. With the bloated KDE, gnome and mozilla this is currently not the case. I'm not sure that you can even set a web-browsing workstation on something with less than 64MB and expect it to run smoothly. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= 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]
