[ale] Linux in DeKalb County Schools

[jwkite at gmail.com]

I was at my son's school this morning and thrilled when I looked at the computers in his second grade classroom. One was running XP and the other two were running Open Suse. I really respect his teacher and asked if the kids have any trobules with the Linux boxes. She stated only that those machines "don't have sound cards" and that the kids cannot use a particular education site (encompasslearning). 

Is anyone familiar with what the county is doing with Linux or technology in general?  I would be glad to volunteer to either donate sound cards and configure them or (as I suspect) fix any driver issues plus install required software (e.g. Flash), but I'm afraid of what kind of red tape I may encounter. I also have no experience with OpenSuse (for better or worse I'm an old Mandrake turned Ubuntu user), but that shouldn't stop me. 

Thanks,

Josh Kite
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