Rising star
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| kozmcrae May 09, 2007 7:13 PM EDT |
I predict that that video will become so popular, so fast that it will be parodied within 3 months. Hopefully about "installing" Vista. |
| vainrveenr May 10, 2007 10:04 AM EDT |
What a great video! Gotta just love that square-dancey music :) Another option for libraries to seriously consider besides Ubuntu itself, is its variant Edubuntu, also currently at version 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Its main website is http://www.edubuntu.org/ and you can get free CDs shipped to you (that right, FREE!) via the Edubuntu ShipIt site https://shipit.edubuntu.org/ From the 'Using Edubuntu' site http://www.edubuntu.org/UsingEdubuntu are reasons favoring Edubuntu for libraries even over Ubuntu itself: Quoting:Any good educational platform should provide applications specifically for it's target audience and Edubuntu is no exception. For the younger crowd, just starting out with computers, Gcompris offers a fantastic early learning environment. For slightly older pupils, there are a number of games and activities from the Tux4Kids and KDEEdu projects and for those in high school and older, there is a full office suite as well applications for instant messaging, graphics, sound and video. And that is just by default! Edubuntu also includes access to thousands of other high quality open source programs at no cost.I would guess that the public and school libraries most of you readers know certainly have plenty of 'the younger crowd", grade-schoolers, and high-school students on up, visiting them daily. One can suggest that libraries should 1) Obtain extra ShipIt Edubuntu CDs to be given away to *all* library visitors -or- 2) Enable library patrons to check out and return Edubuntu CDs for home use. Note that both of these options start off as bootable liveCDs, NOT AT ALL requiring actual installations of Edubuntu (or any other 'buntu for that matter!) |
| flufferbeer May 10, 2007 2:13 PM EDT |
Edubuntu for public libraries; not a bad idea.
Problems are at least twofold:
1. Breaking or replacing contracts many public libraries already have for information services specifically requiring MS-Windows' licenses.
2. Obtaining and disseminating bulk copies of Edubuntu. Could easily imagine that the head librarians of each county will be subject to "visits" by the MS Sales team, its legal/government-affairs team, or its library-oriented partners once it [MS] gets any whiff of a public library system seriously considering an actual Production rollout of U/Edu/Ku/Xu buntu. |
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