Experience of using Fedora in schools

[Nicholas Robinson]

Thanks to everyone who posted replies, it's really helpful and I will follow 
it all up.

I have had a few 'complaints' today though from the kids. They want to know 
why we didn't put this 'new system' on before!

Unpicking their more detailed comments on KDE vs. gnome, it seems that the 
perception is that firefox is slower on kde. I have noticed that it is much 
slower when using an nfs drive for its configuration/cache folders but not 
specifically kde or gnome.

All the best

Nick

On Saturday 15 March 2008 01:25:33 Ric Moore wrote:
> 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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