and maybe get a little name recognition for Mandrake too...
On Thursday 12 July 2001 09:54, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:51, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > I heard recently (from my wife, can't confirm the specifics)
> > that MS is suing a very poor public school in Philadelphia
> > for making copies of Windows for its students to run in its
> > classrooms. It seems that for such a school (and really any
> > school) that linux would be just a perfect fit.
>
> Here's the article:
>
> http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/10/microsoft_school/index.html
>
> It's a very interesting read.
>
> > Does anyone know of any elementary and secondary schools
> > using linux? I know many, many colleges are, but I'm more
> > curious to know about other schools.
>
> I don't know of any schools, but by the looks of it there will be quite a
> few adopting GNU/Linux in the future. Australia (my country) appears to be
> heading down the same sorry path as the US, where public schools are
> seriously underfunded and parents are being pushed to consider private
> education. This is an environment ripe for the spread of free software.
>
> > I could imagine all sorts of really cool things that students
> > and teachers could do with linux. I would think that ISPs
> > could donate or discount an internet connection so that the
> > students and teachers could learn about setting up a LAN
> > connected to the internet; bring up some private news and IRC
> > servers for discussing homework; develop virtual web sites to
> > show case student work, syllabuses(sp?), and message boards,
> > etc... They could use the OpenOffice, it would probably be
> > possible for some of them to run linux at home. If people
> > would recycle and donate there old systems to the schools
> > they could have contents for students to win those computers
> > for home. We have a Goodwill Computer works in here in my
> > town with some descent systems available that could easily
> > run linux and even X. (I've heard some parts of the east
> > coast have been having lead problems will old moniters begin
> > tossed out - I shudder to think people are dumping thier
> > computers in dumpsters!!!)
> >
> > It would be really exciting i think -- but maybe I'm too much
> > of a geek. You'd really have to have buy in from the
> > teachers and staff... most likely, except for a few of them,
> > will probably be too terrified of computers in general to
> > even contemplate using linux...I would think local LUGs could
> > train teachers and staff so they could become much more
> > comfortable with the whole thing.
>
> That's an excellent idea! Get local LUGs involved! It'll be a great way for
> them to gain more exposure and hence gain more members and funding for
> themselves and for the free software community in general. It will show
> people that free software is good and not the "cancer" that M$ says it is.
>
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jeferson Lopes Zacco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:51 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Use of Linux
> > > >
> > > > Speaking seriously now, If I ever get to be a good C/C++
> > > > programmer and ever manage to understand QT libraries and
> > > > whatever it takes to make programs for KDE/Gnome/X than
> > > > I really plan on releasing a ChildDesktop for Linux.
> > >
> > > What a FANASTIC idea!!!!
>
> Sounds like a good idea. I think the best way to go about this would be to
> run a 'shell' on top of GNOME or KDE that limits certain functions (e.g.
> command line access) yet has other, more child-friendly, features. Such a
> shell could be very light (and hence easy to maintain and install), since
> it would be using components from the main environment underneath.
