[Gllug] Schools Software

[Christopher Hunter]

On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 11:52 +0100, George wrote:

> Hi,
>  that is certainly true of my 2 daughter's schools, there is a swing going on 
> toward Macs.
>  The afterschool club has a Linux based firewall & a server but the 
> workstations run Windoze by request of the users, simply because of their 
> exposure thro out to Windoze.
> 
>  Having talked to both the old Principal & the new one I found they are 
> covered by what ever the local council has signed up for by way of computer 
> support companies.
> 
>  I talked to the support company manager, who I met by accident, I got this 
> comment why mix the pot & make life difficult, windoze "techs" are a dime a 
> dozen a Linux tech (if could be found in our area (west London !) would ask 
> for more than the manager's salary 

My brother has just done server and workstation installations in three
Spanish schools.  Edubuntu seems to be the choice.

English schools appear to have a vendor lock-in to "Research Machines".
RM generally sell very overpriced Windoze-based rubbish (they were the
last company in Europe to still stock an 80186-based machine!).
Apparently, RM are now selling the Asus Eee for schools use (at a vastly
inflated priice), with the Xandros OS left intact!

C.


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