On Oct 3, 2006, at 8:23 AM, jan gestre wrote:
On 10/2/06, Gideon N. Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday
02 October 2006 20:41, Dudley F. Cañas wrote:
> btw .. whats wrong with fedora core releases 3,4 and now 5? is
ubunto
> more superior?
There's nothing wrong with Fedora. It's just that it's the opinion
of many
here in the mailing list that Ubuntu / Kubuntu would be better for the
project because it's more newbie friendly than Fedora Core.
FYI the project is intended as a tool for public school teachers,
to aide them and to make teaching more effective with the use of IT
particularly FOSS in this case Linux so that is why a desktop
oriented distro like ubuntu/kubuntu suits this project not that
fedora is not good for desktop :D
The thing that is MORE important is often forgotten - the training
the each teacher needs to enable him/her to fully utilize the
technology that is available. More often than not, these projects
only provide the equipment, e.g. computers and internet connection
for one year, and then the sponsor takes advantage of all the media
mileage they can get. After the media brouhaha, teachers are left to
themselves figuring out how to effectively integrate the use of the
technology to the curriculum!
Question - what happens if/when the computer breaks down? Will the
same group provide free technical services? If so, for how long? Who
will teach the technician to troubleshoot these equipment?
So - regardless of whether or not Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows, Mac or DOS
is used, the more important thing here is training. I'd rather have a
teacher using FreeDOS to teach kids programming than one with Fedora/
Ubuntu-installed computer but is kept in the corner unused. You'd be
surprise that there are far more teachers who are afraid of computers
than those who embrace it.
Now - here I am again, challenging PLUG to be pro-active in this
arena. The adopt a school proposal that I have brought up a few
months back elicited a handful of responses. If we, as PLUG members,
are indeed serious in making FOSS the de-facto standard in Philippine
primary and secondary education (believe me, it will "trickle up" to
tertiary), we have to make sure that we do something about it rather
than blabbering here about which distro is better. :)
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