Linux in Education

[Jason Spiro]

On 6/22/06, Marc Lijour <marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> back in December we had an interesting thread about Linux and more generally
> FOSS in high school. It happens that I have an opportunity to discuss these
> topics at the Ministry of Education within a couple of days. I would
> appreciate if you had some links you would like to share.

Linux Weekly News (www.lwn.net) is a superb site with well-researched
articles. It has articles on Linux adoption in various countries every
so often. If you google for things like:

skolelinux OR schools site:lwn.net

you may find some, or else email the proprietor, a kind fellow, at
corbet at lwn.net.

At your presentation, consider bringing a laptop with Ubuntu,
OpenOffice, and Xgl installed. Especially Xgl. Everyone loves eye
candy. :-) I am recommending preinstalled instead of using the liveCD
because, of course, liveCDs are so slow. Though the new Ubuntu 6.06 CD
is a massive improvement over 5.10: one CD for both live and install,
and in live mode it boots up faster than before and without asking you
questions about keyboard layout etc.

(My brother installed Xgl recently. Boy is it impressive. Especially
the 3-D animated virtual desktop-switching feature is nice: just move
the mouse to the right edge of the screen and turn the scroll wheel.)

We'd be curious to know how the discussion with the Ministry goes.

Regards,
Jason
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