Linux in Education

[Marc Lijour]

On June 22, 2006 12:02 pm, Jason Spiro wrote:
> 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
> Please CC me on all replies.

Already thank you for your links and support.
I will let you know.

Marc
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