On Monday 28 October 2002 5:49 pm, ian wrote:
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:09, Tim Pizey wrote:
Hi James,
On Monday 28 October 2002 1:03 pm, james.spedding@rdiu.anglia.ac.uk wrote:
So really that's my question - at the risk of repeating previous threads - what do you think is limiting the rollout of what is a better system into all schools? lack of support, lack of appropriate software, poor profile......
I am a freelance and have no dealings with schools, so this is just my 0.02gbp
With SuSE 8.0 I cannot imagine why anyone would voluntarily use anything else.
It installs cleanly, recognises everything and is real computing. What would be the point of using anything else in schools.
By time current students have entered teh workforce M$ will be a forgotten nightmare.
Just to play devils advocate. First how do I run RMs primary maths software (Don't say Wine as I don't know what ti is or whether it will work for sure ;-) ) Wine, sorry, couldn't resist it. I am assured that it works so well that you can even get attacked by MS virii.
Second if it goes wrong and its Windows its just the way technology works. If it goes wrong and its Linux, I should have bought Windows. I have just been giving some INSET at a site where we have over 100 stations using Linux thin clients, KDE desktop. OO.org etc. Some enthusiastic people, some who are totally disinterested and some who are terrified of anything with a keyboard. IT is a con. Until the critical mass of confidence in something else is achieved the Windows con will persist. I believe it will change but its going to take a bit of shifting.
I am always suprised by the speed of change, I have no idea what will trigger it, but when it happens I think MS will be out of business in under 6 months. I certainly haven't looked back since SuSE 7.2, 8.0 is better. By SuSE 10 I feel MS won't be able to compete, but who knows. cheers TimP