Tag: Open Source
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FLOSSing in School – Innovate Online
Gary Hepburn and Jan Buley‘s Innovate article (Getting Open Source Software into Schools:Strategies and Challenges) on open source is a pretty good read as it matched off and supports much of what I believe to be the issues involved with bringing any new systems into schools. My position goes a little something like this… One…
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Truth Happens
Well it’s a lazy Friday afternoon and while hunting for some LINUX resources, I found these videos from RedHat.
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Edubuntu
This is just a quick note on Edubuntu – a variant of the popular Ubuntu that is rumoured to be part of the base for Google’s linux distro Goobuntu. I installed it Friday and with no supervision it went in in about an hour, maybe more (I had to leave it) and for the few…
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Email most important
I found this interesting – according to a report on C|Net The survey was conducted by the OSDL Desktop Linux Working Group in October 2005. It found that without quality e-mail applications, Linux on the desktop was not a feasible alternative for most people because e-mail is rated as the most important application regardless of…
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G5 Deer Park
With the release of Firefox 1.5 apon us, I’ve downloaded the G5 Optimized version to try out. It’s certainly fast (especially in text boxes – like the one that I’m using now), but fails the acid test the same way that the 1.0 releases do (though I’m thinking that this may not be a priority…