Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (45 mails)

[James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 06:57 -0400, James Tremblay wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 21:47 -0400, massonpj@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I am looking for any campuses (ideally higher ed.) that may have
> > "officially" adopted Linux on the desktop as a replacement for Windows or
> > even as a co-supported platform.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> 
> Patrick,
> There are a number of examples of k-12 districts that have moved to
> Linux as a primary OS , however there is always some MS in the network
> it just makes sense considering that lots of education software is
> written for it. I doubt that you'll find any post secondary schools that
> have adopted an OS on the desktop as a standard at all , considering
> that those schools don't pay for most of the computers used by the
> students. There are likely some programs that may require Linux to be
> used as a means to accomplish some particular task and I'm sure that
> some labs are setup with Linux for web research, writing papers or other
> generic tasks.
> 
> I hope this helps.

Patrick,
You should also do a little research on Ericom,
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ericom.com/termemulation.asp&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=2&usg=AFQjCNGNg-KxngsbzQna3siL8tAW1jzXVQ ;,
this is one of the best ways to adopt SLED as a desktop without loosing
important windows apps.
-- 
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Newmarket,NH
http://en.opensuse.org/Education
"let's make a difference"

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