linux in the classroom

[Eric R. Benoit]

You've done our school good favor then...  I will look at the link, 
maybe this will work. I'm wondering if you will be doing another 
presentation for Erie1 that I could bring 1 or 2 of people I work with?



pirrone at localnet.com wrote:

>Eric,
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>You have that link to equivalent programs, and if it's the one I'm
>familiar with it's an exhaustive and impressive list of applications,
>which I second as the way to go.  Take a look at the Linux Terminal Server
>Project too, for an even greater departure from the norm.
>I gave presentations to the Erie1 and Orleans-Niagara BOCES on F/OSS and
>got a good response.  I'm afraid the outcome will be people running The
>Gimp, Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Audacity, OpenOffice, etc. on
>Windows, but that's a foot in the door.
>My personal approach is to commit to Gnu/Linux and its applications, and
>at this stage actually feel handicapped whenever I work in Windows.  Your
>students would likely experience the same.
>Emulation is nearly as ugly as virtual sex...
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>Frank
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>>A small high school.
>>I would like to test/setup a small lab of student computers with linux
>>and an "emulator" to run win32 software that the school purchased.  I
>>am  having difficulty trying to find a free emulator if it even exists
>>(Wine  is limiting).  I also have not used an emulator before and am
>>not sure  how well it would perform (hopefully better than windows) and
>>would be  unsure of it's scalability with the software we have and will
>>purchase.   For instance we have a II tier server application for
>>reading that uses  IPX.  I don't see why it wouldn't work, but I also
>>don't no any problems  that could occur running win32 applications that
>>are meant for
>>connectivity accross a network.  "I" lack in this area, and I just want
>> to know enough that will satisfy me to start working on such a
>>project.   Would an emulator run ALL my win32 software?  Would an
>>emulator need a  beefy computer to run on?
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>>Thanks,
>>Eric
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>>pirrone wrote:
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>>>Eric R. Benoit wrote:
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>>>>Well, I popped the question to a possible inexpensive stable
>>>>solution.  Not sure how it was taken though.
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>>>Eric,
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>>>Where's that, and what functionality?
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>>>Frank
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