> What I meant here is: Nobody (children) would dream of playing games in a > Linux system and would surely try to get their systems Game Compatible > (Windows). Anyways, even if the govt adopts Linux, Will the children who use > it?
The Government of Kerala had moved to GNU/Linux based IT curriculum in all public schools quite a while back (5-6 years I think). So government schools across Kerala uses GNU/Linux as the platform for IT education. I think this transition has been rather smooth and well implemented. Now very recently I came across a CBSE class 9 IT text book and saw that 2/3 of the content in the text book was openoffice and GNU/Linux OS. Not sure if this was a decision by the school authorities or whether this was a national roll out. Given these I definitely think that it should be possible to have a state level roll out of GNU/Linux based laptops to students especially given the possibility that it would be the first opportunity for a large number of these students to be owning/using a computer. So if they start using GNU/Linux I would think they would naturally become comfortable with that (and the games available there, also don't forget Fedora games spin). Cheers Anoop |-- | Zyxware Technologies | http://www.zyxware.com |-- | Be the change you wish to see in the world, M. K. Gandhi |-- _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
