Linux killer!

[Tim]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:42 -0500, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Right now, there is no way that I would consider taking our school to
> linux for front end applications (stuffs not available for linux, and
> wine DOES NOT WORK (that's a whole other story but the time total on
> that one was about 20 hours before I gave up) 

I think that all depends on what you need to do.

Earlier it was discussed how to do something that the school did not
want to happen.  For some reason, not being able to flout that rule was
seen as a bad point.

If a school needed a system where students can research on the internet
(browse and e-mail) but not play silly games, and use a word processor
to type up their work, another program to mess with artwork, edit audio
files for music studies, etc.  Then it can do it.  It is a good
workhorse.

To me, it's the ideal thing to advocate to parents who wanted a PC so
their child could do their homework, but not waste time and money on
toys, games, and have to cope with an abundance of spyware, malware,
etc.  

It does the work.  The user has to learn useful information to be able
to mess around with games, and that's far more educational than just
installing a game on Windows.  But if they can't be bothered to learn
about computing, then it's a tool that does the job mum and dad got it
for.

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