Basically you've got the choice of two camps, you can go the KDE way or the Gnome2 way.
Seeing as how you're already using RH9, and presumably familiar with its configuration tools - stick with it. I've heard mixed things about RedHat, personally I'm a Debian fan. Rather that simply setting up one or two boxes to show the staff, have a variety of setups on a few computers and let them have a play. Have some open documents, etc. Have a machine running KDE, a machine running Gnome, and their respective office suites. Another with OpenOffice. Maybe something with wine (pref. cxoffice version), running Office97 for show. What I would reccommend is dont try to get the whole school to change, see if you can get half a computer lab done with slightly different setups. And let the choice of the students, and staff, speak for itself. Or, looking at things in a longer term, dont worry about the front end desktops, get your servers unhitched from the applications that are holding you back. Ximian Connector ( http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/) will help with linux exchange compatibility. Get OpenOffice installed on the Windows machines, start subtle. Ditch Internet Explorer and install mozilla. Then when you finally move people over, they're simple like 'whee the login screen looks new'. Sascha On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 07:46, Terry Cole wrote: > Folks, > With all the MS problems/virus as well as Exchange problems I have been > having, I am keen to try a Linux option at our high school. > I have RH 9 Web server that performs great, no downtime. > I have spoken with our board chair who is also on my side. > > > For workstations and server what OS and Apps should I use? > We need 'Office', 'Corel', 'Internet', 'E-mail', 'Publisher'. > > I want to put a small network together to show the staff. > > Any suggestions would be great. > > Cheers > > Terry Cole > Rotorua, New Zealand > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cole.gen.nz > http://www.websnz.com > -- Sascha Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
