There is a long way to go before truly user friendly Linux software meets full cross curricular requirements.
This may be because curricular requirements are expressed in terms of what is available to and known about by those who write them. There was no curriculum requirement for Web or email five years ago. Requirements now depend on what can be done with IE and MS Office.
The monotheic rantings of Linux devotees
Monotheic? Most Windows schools I know have only one operating system throughout the school, some insist firmly that no other is allowed. All Linux schools I know of have one or two other operating systems in use as well. Here we have half a dozen, all sharing the same filestore and the same web and email facilities. We have BBCs, we have Archimedes, we have NCs, we have FreeBSD hosts, we have Macs, we have Windows in three or four varieties, we're trying to work out how to configure some Sparcstations, we have diskless and non-diskless X terminals providing KDE desktops, and we may even soon put in an NT or w2k server! Monotheic? Bet we're the most polytheic school you know. -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-820527 or 07798 636725 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk