sophie wrote: > For information, 55 000 laptops will be distributed to students and > teachers in one department of France (Oise). They will be prepared with > OpenOffice.org.
Tremendous. > Unfortunately they will be under Vista, but they have a > lot of free educational resources on them. That part is an unmitigated disaster. I run into students all the time that got stuck with Vista on cheap-ass laptops. It causes no end of pain and disappointment for them. Eventually either they end up "finding" XP somewhere, something I don't condone either -- there is never a legit excuse to allow Windows -- or they eventually end up "dual" boot with Ubuntu or Fedora. I put the dual in quotes because once Linux is on there, MS Vista is seldom used -- it sucks to badly -- and eventually leaves the disk. Here are some quick fixes for the Vista problems that will improve the performance of OOo and other applications: http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first.htm https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot http://apcmag.com/why_vistas_such_a_pain_to_dualboot.htm There might be French equivalents of the above links somewhere. With care, we can avoid the suckitude of Vista dragging down legitimate software. > This operation is known as Ordi60 in France and we were waiting for the > results since some time now. After USB Key in Ile de France (220 000), > CDs in Auvergne (64 000), this is the third department to provide OOo to > their students! I remember the announcement of the USB key project. What were the results? > An article in French can be found here > http://www.silicon.fr/fr/news/2009/01/23/55_000_collegiens_equipes_d_un_ordinateur_portable_dans_l_oise_ I've made a link from the Major OpenOffice.org Deployments wiki page, it may need correcting: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments#Europe -Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
