Experience of using Fedora in schools

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 15:34 -0400, max bianco wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Nicholas Robinson
> <npr at bottlehall.co.uk> wrote:
>         Hi
>         
>         I've finally managed to convince my school that we should
>         consider abandoning
>         XP on the workstations (we've been using fedora servers for
>         several years)
>         and use fedora instead.
>         
>         Does anyone have any experience of which is better, gnome or
>         kde, for 8-13
>         year olds? On the basis of four machines, for three days,
>         being trialled by a
>         few children, it would seem that gnome is ahead. I've always
>         used kde though!
>         
>         Thanks for any help you can give.
>         
>         Nick
>         
> 
> I was a KDE user till i started using fedora . I could never quite get
> used to KDE on fedora  and GNOME seems better supported on redhat
> clones anyway. I have found that GNOME has much fewer options by
> default  but in MY(not trying to start a war here) experience is more
> stable than KDE anyway so I vote GNOME for new users. Though I still
> use some kde apps !

I've been using KDE since when, and I much prefer the way it works. Jus'
my two cents, Ric

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