> James E. Henderson said: > They have .iso files for DVD and CD collections and will subsidise > your giving them away.
A subsidy would be nice. I suspect it is too late to get that before Wednesday, though. Carl Lowenstein has been looking into the iso stuff. He told me they have some sort of lame MS Windows-based browser and other issues. I downloaded their "offline-package" to my laptop. It seems to mostly work, albeit the interface is a little clunky. I don't know if we'll have an internet connection at the exposition... > Andrew Lentvorski > Well, take a look at edubuntu, as well... > Set up a Moodle instance and let them play > Run lots of stuff in OpenOffice. Show them that their students can > just use a school supplied CD and a USB key (persistence) to do their > homework (effectively: use the word processor in OpenOffice) without > reformatting the home machine. You might need ubuntu if Knoppix > doesn't have a similar persistence. If you look at http://necc2006.pbwiki.com/Playground%20Booths you'll see that other folks will be demoing moodle, edbuntu and openoffice. I hadn't thought of the USB key (good idea!). Knoppix does have the ability to use one to be persistent via a USB key or a directory on a hard drive, but OpenOffice is not included on recent versions of the Knoppix CD (I think it is on the DVD - lacking a DVD burner, I haven't explored that). I installed Knoppix to a partition on my hd, so maybe I'll cheat and install OpenOffice there as well. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
