My little story. A pupil at a secondary school told me than one day during class in a computer suite the teacher handed all students a KNOPPIX CD instructed them to insert it into the cdrom drive & reboot. I did not find out what purpose this was used for.
I speculate that use of Linux in education may be more common than we think. Cheers Ross Drummond On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:52, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > [snip] > > > This would be a very important issue to address :-) otherwise you're > > going to have to "reeducate" the teachers, and change their lesson > > plans, and they'll be very resistant to that. > > And changing a lesson plan is quite an expensive proposition (in time, > if not direct financial cost). > > As much as I love Linux, we have to supply the software that people need > to run. In the education sector[1] we just don't have the apps; there is > a similar situation with games[2]. I will cut of my nose just so I can > be free, but I do not ask that of others. > > [1] I am excluding educational programing systems for the tertiary > sector (such as Matlab). > [2] Yes, Tux Racer is fun. Yes, UT will run on Linux (out of the box). > Yes, the entire Doom and Quake series runs under Linux. Yes, > Neverwinter Nights runs under Linux. But there are more games that > *don't* run under Linux than do.
