Tue 27 Jun 2006
Open Source Equivalents
Posted by Andrew Mitry under Open Source
I received our summer camp technology curriculum from School Technology Programs today, we just signed with them. They base the curriculum off of commercial software, but it doesn’t look like it will be difficult to tweak the lesson plans and templates for the open source equivalents. We are going to setup a mini lab for the summer camp and see how it goes. For this year we will still keep Windows on the desktop, but use these apps instead of their commercial counterparts:
- Microsoft Office -> OpenOffice.org
- Microsoft Publisher -> Scribus
- Microsoft Frontpage -> Nvu
- Kid Pix 4 -> Tux Paint
If all goes well, we will have a good case for using K12Linux next year. (If only I can get more of the tech volunteers trained on Linux).
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August 13th, 2006 at 12:29 am[...] Our pilot test this summer running open source applications for the summer camp technology curriculum was successful and we are ditching Microsoft Office on the desktop (except Outlook) and running OpenOffice instead for all teachers and students. We will be saving quite a bit by not having to get all those extra Microsoft Office licenses. If it goes well this year we may even consider going Linux on the desktop as well. [...]
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March 29th, 2007 at 11:41 pm[...] Dell announced yesterday that they will expand Linux factory installed options to include their notebook and desktop lines (they already provide Linux options on their server line). Hopefully this will motivate the other major hardware vendors to do the same. I think Linux on the desktop will definitely be something we look at in a year or two when most of our desktops will be nearing end of life (with Windows XP). We already run OpenOffice.org and other open-source apps for the school so the switch to desktop Linux shouldn’t be too painful. Hopefully with the new support from Dell, there will be more offerings in the desktop management space (equivalents to group policy). [...]
June 29th, 2006 at 4:37 am
The open Source alternatives are very helpfull
I have been stuck on Dreamwever for awhile now i want to check out NVU and hope it will be powerfull enough to make the switch worthwhile
The switch to linux should not be that hard for computer literate volunteers especially with the user friendly GUI’s like the new SUSE
July 2nd, 2006 at 8:32 am
I just checked out a video of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 at http://osvids.com, it looks pretty slick. I wonder how it compares to Ubuntu Dapper Drake.