I agree, and it's up to us (those who want to see linux in education) to promote it to the goverment which would promote it to matach.
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Edu in linux": > > > terms of both production tools and training. Also, many of the academic > > > community who plan the content want to use features that Msoft offers > > > that are not standard technologies in order to get maximum visual effect - > > > things that you can't do in HTML or even in Java. We are a long, long way > > > from providing the tools that they need to make cuting edge educational > > > content. > > > > This thread is really making me sad. > > > > Is that what the teaching-software people really think? > > That Linux (or whatever non-Microsoft solution) doesn't have enough "features" > > to help kids? > > > > Does a kid who still cannot read as well as his class need super-fancy > > Windows-specific featuresto practice the alphabet? Does a kid who can't > > remember the multiplication table need features not available in Windows > > for the "maximum visual effect"? > > I can testify that this is not the case. I'll even make a bolder claim. It > is possible and not hard at all to write educational software that will > run equally well on both Linux and Windows from an almost unmodified > codebase. > > 1. If it's a multimedia application - by using SDL (the Simple DirectMedia > Layer), OpenGL (Mesa3d) and other cross-platform technologies. They have > served as the basis for several real-time super-aesthetic games so I think > can handle educational programs easily enough. > > If you wish to script your application you can use Perl/Python/Tcl/Ruby or > whatever, as they run equally well on Windows and UNIXes. > > 2. If it's a GUI application - by using a cross-platform abstraction > library like wxWindows, Qt or Mozilla XUL. That or using Java or the Tk > toolkit. wxWindows, Qt and Mozilla XUL will even look and behave like a > native applications in both operating systems. > > 3. If it's a web-based application - by either sticking to simple HTML or > implementing everything using perfectly standards compliant > HTML/EcmaScript/DHTML/CSS that will run equally well on all modern > browsers. > > > The main problem I think why we don't see it, is because vendors of > educational program feel the market for Linux is too small and so decide > to develop and deploy only for Win32. It's not a question of superiority. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ > Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." > "Wait a second - is n a natural number?" > > > ================================================================= > 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] > > ================================================================= 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]
