Very Interesting article: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/02/HNfrenchstudentsopensource_1.html
"French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian high-school students at the start of the next school year... The sticks will probably contain the Firefox 2 Web browser, Thunderbird e-mail client, an office productivity suite such as OpenOffice.org 2, an audio and video player, and software for instant messaging..." Maybe local schools here will employ similar idea? The topic leads into my question... how well are USB memory sticks/flash drives supported in Linux? I just picked up a 1GB Memorex Mini Travel Drive U3 USB Flash Drive from Best Buy for $19.99. Package says "Linux 2.4 or higher" is supported. Moreover the Flash Drive is "U3 Smart" and Thunderbird comes preinstalled (along with Migo Synchronize tool and USafe password protection, which I don't know anything about). However package says "U3 software requirements: W2K SP4 or WinXP". No Linux is listed. Anyone have idea if any Linux distros support U3 on this drive (or any others). www.u3.com. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
