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
Either you need to persuade RM to port that software, have someone clone it or use something else with similar functionality.
work for sure ;-) ) 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
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