I heard recently (from my wife, can't confirm the specifics)
that MS is suing a very poor public school in Philadelphia
for making copies of Windows for its students to run in its
classrooms. It seems that for such a school (and really any
school) that linux would be just a perfect fit.
Does anyone know of any elementary and secondary schools
using linux? I know many, many colleges are, but I'm more
curious to know about other schools.
I could imagine all sorts of really cool things that students
and teachers could do with linux. I would think that ISPs
could donate or discount an internet connection so that the
students and teachers could learn about setting up a LAN
connected to the internet; bring up some private news and IRC
servers for discussing homework; develop virtual web sites to
show case student work, syllabuses(sp?), and message boards,
etc... They could use the OpenOffice, it would probably be
possible for some of them to run linux at home. If people
would recycle and donate there old systems to the schools
they could have contents for students to win those computers
for home. We have a Goodwill Computer works in here in my
town with some descent systems available that could easily
run linux and even X. (I've heard some parts of the east
coast have been having lead problems will old moniters begin
tossed out - I shudder to think people are dumping thier
computers in dumpsters!!!)
It would be really exciting i think -- but maybe I'm too much
of a geek. You'd really have to have buy in from the
teachers and staff... most likely, except for a few of them,
will probably be too terrified of computers in general to
even contemplate using linux...I would think local LUGs could
train teachers and staff so they could become much more
comfortable with the whole thing.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeferson Lopes Zacco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:51 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Use of Linux
> >
> > Speaking seriously now, If I ever get to be a good C/C++
> > programmer and ever manage to understand QT libraries and
> > whatever it takes to make programs for KDE/Gnome/X than
> > I really plan on releasing a ChildDesktop for Linux.
> >
> What a FANASTIC idea!!!!
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