I've been thinking about the same thing the past few days. I put the newest version of OpenSuse using KDE 4 on a desktop here, it joined the AD domain easily and everything works really smoothly with no effort on my part. I really like a lot of the new things in KDE 4 already. I totally agree that students would have the least amount of trouble changing, but I've seen a few little things that staff would like too.
-----Original Message----- From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Murray Gafkjen Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 10:36 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?: Insight - Software - ZDNet Australia [Spam score:8%] http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Is-it-Windows-7-or-KDE-4-/0,139023769,339294810,00.htm More fuel for the open source gang, sure would be tempting to switch but having teachers change, that's another story. I think the kids would be more willing. If KD4 could work within its typical framework (smaller OS, quicker, needs less memory), this would be interesting to test with a few groups of students. One could ask for volunteers from the students to see who would be interested. (The bigger hassle would be keeping these Gateway laptops alive) I think LightSpeed is even working on a client for such... Have a good Friday and enjoy the video from DownUnder. Murray Gafkjen Clay Central Everly --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ --------------------------------------------------------- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
