On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:37:45 +0100 Ben Norcutt wrote:
As someone that works as a network manager in a secondary school in Norwich I can say that the IT support brach for the schools has a hard enough time with windoze.
I'd always wished that more educational establishments have access to Linux, since it was what attracted me to university in the first place! There I was with my copy of Yggrdrasil Linux with 0.93 of the kernel and I was happily tinkering about with it on my 486DX-33 computer with 8Mb RAM (which I then had to upgrade to 16Mb because of X-Windows). This was way back in 1994.
These days, distributions such as Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE making it so much easier to install. Applications such as Openoffice, Abiword, Gimp, etc make it easier to get up and running productively.
There really isn't much excuse not to go for a Linux solution in the school now, whether it be studying for a GCSE in Computer Studies or word processing your latest German essay. Linux is the best of both worlds - a productivity operating system combined with enough development tools to satisfy the most demanding of programmers.
Regards,
Martyn