[Wolves] Linux in schools

[Stuart Langridge]

Peter Cannon wrote:
> (2) I'm a bit miffed with the school sending kids home with bits of paper 
> saying "Look on the Internet to get your homework done" thats fine if a 
> family has (a) a computer (b) an internet connection, but what about the poor 
> parents that haven't got either?

What you're *supposed* to do here is use the school's internet 
connection, but...

> Finally the most incredulous point the pupils are not aloud to use the school 
> computers because "Too many kids are messing about with them" I doubt if 
> offering open source solutions to them would increase the level of computer 
> usage commitment!

...you can't always do that. And the school mentioned above is not alone 
in this, speaking as a bloke with a teacher for a wife. It is 
ridiculous. However, I think open-source can help here, because you 
don't need much in the way of budget to buy some old P200s and stick a 
minimal Linux distribution on them -- not sure about Firefox, but Dillo 
would work as a browser...

Aq.