Public Schools, Open Source Software and Linux

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Aug 28, 2007 11:45 PM EDT
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Last school year, I worked as a technology coordinator for a rural high school in Illinois. In an attempt to save the school some money, I introduced OpenOffice.org, GIMP, Firefox, and Thunderbird. Linux was also installed on a few desktop PCs and a couple of servers. Ubuntu was the Linux distribution selected. OpenSUSE, Debian, Fedora, and Slackware were also given trials on the servers. The open source software and operating systems were met with some acceptance, some resistance, and some skepticism.

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The textbooks were locked into teaching Microsoft Office... Aladdin_Sane 3 852 Aug 30, 2007 10:35 AM

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