[ale] Linux in DeKalb County Schools

[David Hillman]

That is good news!  I bet a lot of people have sound cards that can be
donated.  That site probably uses Adobe Flash.  I still have trouble with
Flash on Linux.  Isn't OpenSuse rpm-based, just like Redhat?  It might be
worth it to just install Ubuntu or Kubuntu on the boxes.  Linux is way more
hackable and flexible than Windows, perfect for education.  I remember we
had some Sun workstation boxes in my school.  Someone had donated them.
 Those were wonderful machines.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:10 AM, <jwkite at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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