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| 117587 | 2003-02-01 05:00:00 | I currently (in spare time) look after a small primary school's LAN with 6 WIndows PCs and a Linux server used as a file server (SAMBA) and an internet gateway. My long term goal (assuming it fits in with educational goals) is to convert the workstations to Linux too. I run Linux on my own PC and (like a lot of other people I suspect) spend quite a lot of time finding suitable software for various tasks - it takes time but the end result is usually good. OpenOffice is good! I know there are various sites dedicated to educational software - but I am being lazy - has anyone else evaluated software suitable for primary schools? My prefered distribution is RedHat. Any comments? |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 117588 | 2003-02-01 05:11:00 | What type of "Software" are you after, as the Office products that come with RH8 are great, and there's most things for general day-to-day use. Dont forget there's also Wine and Wine-X that you can try out. I used Wine-X but needed to update my drivers so it didnt work to well on my GF4 :-) Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 117589 | 2003-02-01 05:13:00 | I guess I'm talking about tools to aid classroom learning - the things that the Mac platform has been traditionally good at. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 117590 | 2003-02-01 05:25:00 | Ah - like the Super Slueth stuff... I think Sierra makes some of them... If it works on PC - They may work under WINE. It doesnt come with RedHat, however, Lycoris Desktop/LX may be a good alternative, and it comes with it too! I would suggest Desktop/LX for classrooms who dont want it to be quite so obvious its linux... and.. well.. there's lots of reasons Id suggest it. Anyways, sometimes if you go to the warehouse you can pick up a 3CD set for about $20 :-) Games likes: Midnight Rescue Treasure Cove Gizmo's and Gadgets I've played them all on windows and they're great fun (Back in primary school!). I would highly reccomend those for a school any day! (Ages 5-12) Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 117591 | 2003-02-02 05:02:00 | Have you heard of the NZ Open Source Society; they are promoting Linux as an alternative to Mac's and Windows. They may have something on their website (www.nzoss.org.nz) but they may be interested in talking to you as you already are using it. Have you tried SourceForge.net and Freshmeat.net (sounds a bit suspect but its an open source projects portal). | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 117592 | 2003-02-02 09:30:00 | I agree what DD said. You could sign up to the NZOSS mailing list and if you have any queries, we (The NZOSS) will be more than happy to answer them. From memory, there are a few sites that deal specifically with OSS in schools. SchoolForge (http://www.schoolforge.net) is one such site. I'm sure if also seen a few other URLs posted to the list somewhere. Also, if the pc's at the school aren't very recent, you could look at K12LTSP. This is a distribution designed for schools and it also allows you to have the client pc's boot off a server and display an X session over the network - This is really good for old hardware that isn't fast enough for the latest software (486's are a minimum for this). But for 6 pc's, it might be better (Depending on the hardware) just installing a distribution on each pc. K12LTSP will also let you do that. |
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| 117593 | 2003-02-03 06:39:00 | Thanks for your replies so far - most of which I am at least a little bit familiar with. Are there any teachers using Linux as a desktop OS with Linux software fitting NZ currculum needs? Incidently I did post this message at NZOSS simultaneously with this one - have received a number of replies here but none at NZOSS. |
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