[school-discuss] Educational Materials for Linux

[owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net (Nobody)]

Mr. Loss,

I work in network support here at the Lower Hudson Regional 
Information
Center, located in Westchester County, New York.  While doing a 
search on
Google, I came across your posts to the SchoolForge forum concerning 
World
Book and Britannica ports to Linux.  As I am starting to look into 
Linux
resources for the classroom, and encyclopedias are an extremely 
important
component, I was wondering what the nature of the responses from your
inquiries were.

LHRIC is venturing into terminal-server-based computing, but not
Linux-based systems, such as K12LTSP.  I am starting to look into a
Linux-based client-server model where there is a single-sign-on to a 
mixed
network of Windows/Linux and NetWare/Linux servers.  However, as you 
stated
in your posts, an electronic encyclopedia is an essential component 
of any
educational setting.  If publishers offer a Linux ported 
encyclopedia this
would be a big step in the acceptance of Linux solutions in more 
schools.

Your posts brought up a point that gave me pause.  You stated that 
these
publishers offer a port to Mac OSX, which is underpinned by FreeBSD. 
  Since
FreeBSD is another Unix flavor is anyone, to your knowledge, working 
on a
Mac-on-Linux solution such as WineX for Windows?  Also, would you 
know if
it could be possible to design a web interface for this type of 
software so
that it run natively on a Windows server but be accessed through a 
browser
on a Linux machine?

Thank you for your time.  You can check out LHRIC at 
http://www.lhric.org
to see what we do.

Yours,
James Anderson,
Network Specialist,
SWBOCES/LHRIC





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