Re: [school-core] School Software and OS Choice

[Michael Viron <mviron@findaschool.org>]

All,

I think this may be more appropriate for the school-discuss list, since the
school-core list is, if I'm not mistaken, meant for admin related topics.

Just a thought,

Michael

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Michael Viron
Founding Representative (General Education Online)
Schoolforge


At 07:25 AM 9/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Simon Gauvin wrote:
>>>There are schools making use of BSD - not sure if anything beyond that.
What
>>>OSes did you have in mind?
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>> Yes, there are many alternative OSs that are far more usable and useful 
>> to students than Linux or BSD. Namely, BeOS and its open source variants 
>> (see http://www.beunited.org ). I was wondering why these systems have 
>> not found their way into the public domain or school systems. BeOS 
>> offers superior performance on older machines than Linux, has a far more 
>> integrated and user-friendly user interface, and supports all the APIs 
>> needed to create rich media for education.
>> 
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>I wonder if BeOS is OpenSource? Can you give me some pointer?
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>Thanks
>Karl
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>Dr. Karl Sarnow
>Teacher at Gymnasium Isernhagen
>German national co-ordinator of the European Schools Project
>e-Mail: karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de
>URL: http://www.shuttle.schule.de/h/dadoka
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