Hi David > Though I do use some pretty high > end graphics programs (such as the Adobe Creative Suite), I don't use > them often much anymore, and may be quite content with some of the > FOSS apps out there. While I'm in grad school I do a little adjunct > teaching on the side, and it makes me so mad that the college requires > the students to purchase MS Office 2007 Professional. They can get it > for only $59, but if I ran the world, I would have every college and > university on Open Office. Students already have too many expenses.
All students should have a Gecko EduBook (http://www.norhtec.com/ products/gecko/index.html or http://www.norhtec.com/info/datasheets/geckoedubookbrochure.pdf) with 1 GB ram 6 GB sd, wireless card (or 3g with free internet) and Puppy Linux installed with OpenOffice, Gimp and InkScape, (maybe even Scribus, Ardour and RoseGarden - if needed). At school they should have access to stations where they could plug a copy of their save.sfs with a second sd or usb (EduBook has 2 sd-slots one internal and another external) into the network - running a Virtual puppy... Very affordable and even trendy. :-) According to the puppy community users have had success with running Puppy on Thin Clients with less than 256 mb of ram - so there should be no reason why you shouldn't be able to get a very responsive system (no fans or moveable parts) for very little money.. (maybe even levelling the price of MS Office?!) I'm for my part, have been using Puppy derivatives from an usb stick on my corporate IBM/Lenovo, with 1 GB ram (T52) for a year now. (The harddisc is broken) And everything I need from a computer is possible with Puppy. In BrowserLinux (very small puplet with FireFox 3.5.5) I have also installed Open Office 3.1.1 (as an .sfs) and it runs much faster than it did in Xp pro. I also installed Lilypond (music notation without a gui) and now I'm writing my music notes directly in OpenOffice with Lilypond. For full scores I use MuseScore and export to Lilypond for high quality graphics. Everything with TiddlyWiki works perfectly on this system (with my hardware) and the speed/responsetime is absolutely topnotch.... If you like TiddlyWikis hackability and seemingly endless possibilities - I'm sure you will love Puppy linux - it has some of the same characteristics. Regards Måns Mårtensson
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