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There are a couple recent articles which cover this subject much better than I can. :) <http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/152/> <http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/533/> I know that one commercial vendor, Sun Microsystems, has put quite a bit of effort into producing lesson plans, tutorials and other materials aimed at making their StarOffice product more education-friendly. StarOffice is the commercial version of OpenOffice.org... however it's available free of charge to schools so it's probably a better choice for schools than the OpenOffice.org product I mentioned in the previous post. You can read more about Sun's StarOffice offerings for education on their web site: <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/solutions/staroffice.html>. I'd be curious to hear the reactions of those educators who had to counter the same arguments when they chose Macintosh over Windows. ...brig On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:38 -0600, Gail Smith wrote: > I'm just curious as to why the "tech person" wants to switch to Linux. I > know there are many tech reasons, such as those mentioned in Brig's post, > but if you are teaching young children, are you not limiting the > availability of appropriate software applications? This sounds as if > technology interests are trumping educational interests in this one. -- Brig C. McCoy Head, Systems Office Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology 5109 Cherry Street Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2498 816-926-8749 Direct 816-885-2700 Cell 816-926-8790 FAX -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------