On Saturday 17 April 2004 17:37, Liam Marshall wrote:
Current school lab setup: 1 RedHat 9 server running Samba emulating an NT domain
35 Windows 98 (Yuck!) workstations running All The Right Type (typing tutor) MSOffice Apps (XP version) Microsoft Visual Basic (Grade 11 programming) Java Programming (Grade 12) various and sundry educational games etc Interenet High Speed Access
Am switching to all Linux network this summer
I need to be able to continue teaching programming, preferably still Java and a flavour of Visual Basic.
I need to be able to continue teaching an MSOffice - like application (OpenOffice)
I need to allow for typing practice
I need to give the kids access to games / internet etc.
I believe Suse will allow me to do all that with the exception of a Visual Basic flavour of programming. (if someone can help me out there it would be appreciated, even if it is just pointing me in the right direction)
Some key features I need to implement.
http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml Is a good place to start for ideas on Linux equivalents to Windows stuff. The rest I'll leave to others. Keep us posted on your progress, Stan