Primary Education & linux (advocacy)

[Kenyon F. Karl]

The Website for the Linspire Distribution (www.linspire.com) has a forum 
for educators (and SoHo) among its Community forums. You MIGHT find what 
you need already in the forum, or even be able to register and post an 
appeal to the forum.

https://forum.linspire.com/forum/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=education

Linspire is derived from Debian, and is a particularly easy OS to 
install. Is Click-N-Run service is the source for Linux software that 
has been tweaked for the Linspire distribution, and the annual fee also 
pays for E-mail support of the system. Note in addition the special 
Education rate for licensing the OS. But given the flat-fee nature of 
that rate and the small size of the Brookline school system, you might 
consider trying to obtain the license at the School Administrative Unit 
level so that the license covers all machines at all member school 
districts.


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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:12:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Smith <jsmith at alum.mit.edu>
Reply-To: jsmith at alum.mit.edu
Subject: Primary Education & linux (advocacy)
To: GNHLUG <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>

I need some help!  I have a debate going on about moving
Brookline Schools (primary education) from Windows to
Linux.  Anyone have pointers/experience with primary
education software for Linux (I'll even settle for open
source that runs on Windows - but am shooting for linux). 
Also, pointers to case studies / examples of US primary
schools that have moved to Linux.

Right now, I'm using www.k12os.org,
http://ofset.sourceforge.net/freeduc/, www.seul.org/edu,
www.schoolforge.net, www.opensourceshools.org for
resources, and just found debian, jr.

thanks for any help
jeff