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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Article in today's "Independent"
- From: Ian Lynch <ian.lynch@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:43:25 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <1089797632.16366.114.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 09:32, Paul Graydon wrote:
> Congratulations Richard indeed!
Hear, hear.
> It is an interesting article, though I think they've missed something
> we experience relating to educational software. In our experience
> most of it is produced using packages at least 5 years old (In one
> case we have a brand new piece of psychology software written
> using the old 16bit Macromedia Director.) We'd probably have less
> hassles getting these software packages running under Wine on
> Linux than we'd have getting them to work under 2K / XP!
And I bet there are now more than 10 schools using desktop Linux. I
could count 10 myself and I bet I don't know all of them.
--
Ian Lynch <ian.lynch@xxxxxxxx>
ZMS Ltd
> Congratulations Richard indeed!
Hear, hear.
> It is an interesting article, though I think they've missed something
> we experience relating to educational software. In our experience
> most of it is produced using packages at least 5 years old (In one
> case we have a brand new piece of psychology software written
> using the old 16bit Macromedia Director.) We'd probably have less
> hassles getting these software packages running under Wine on
> Linux than we'd have getting them to work under 2K / XP!
And I bet there are now more than 10 schools using desktop Linux. I
could count 10 myself and I bet I don't know all of them.
--
Ian Lynch <ian.lynch@xxxxxxxx>
ZMS Ltd
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