Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (225 mails)

[Chris Puttick <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seconded - particularly about experiences with WINE. We are funding a
project starting in the summer, examining applications currently used in
schools and ways to get them to run under Linux. It is assumed this will
primarily be achieved through the use of WINE, hence any positive
experiences others have already had will prevent the project wasting
resources duplicating work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Duncan
To: SuSE mailing list for UK schools
Sent: 5/5/03 10:31 AM
Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Free Open Source application adoption


IMHO the primary factor that influences people when choosing an
operating system
is the availablity of applications for a particular platform. If
computer users
rely on a Windows only application, then there is little chance of a
switch to
Linux etc. until a viable alternative that runs on the proposed new
operating
system is available (I'm assuming that the app can't run using Wine or
some
other emulation).

Are any of you actively trying to introduce apps like OpenOffice.org
into your
schools ? Are you using Wine ? If you are doing these things, I'd be
interested
to hear about your experiences.

Regards

Chris  



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