I think that colleges do help students get introduced to GNU/Linux systems, but then its all upon the students/teachers too. For example, my college runs RHEL5 on most PCs (Except for the AutoCAD lab and a few other labs) but most students cant write a shell script. Holding seminars or workshops on regular basis would do the deal (I think)<br>
<br>The next thing would be the distribution. For example, if some person in Nigeria wants to go and check out a copy of OSes he can install, he should be able to get a media for no cost/nominal cost covering media-cost. I would not start the Canonical/Ubuntu media debate here, because it has happened a few times here. But it would help if a person walks into the CD store and sees some GNU/Linux distros besides Mac and Windows. <br>
<br>And then he compares: Windoze 7 Home ed for 150$ vs Fedora (2DVD pack?) for less than $25. Also, more spins?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/20 Joerg Simon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsimon@fedoraproject.org">jsimon@fedoraproject.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Am 20.08.2010 12:54, schrieb Onyeibo Oku:<br>
<div class="im">> Summary:<br>
> 1. We need more Ambassadors<br>
> 2. We need more anti-dummy tools (for the idiots)<br>
> 3. We need more variety in to choose from<br>
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</div>how sound:<br>
We need more Fedora in Schools and Education?<br>
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Could enable the teachers - a first step?<br>
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cu Joerg<br>
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