Re: [school-discuss] The end of Red Hat support

[Knut Yrvin <knuty@skolelinux.no>]

onsdag 5. november 2003, 15:11, skrev Bob Sewell:
> From a standpoint of a school... does anyone have recommendations for
> another distro to consider?

The Debian-based Skolelinux: 

  http://developer.skolelinux.no/index.html.en
  http://www.skolelinux.no/index.php.en

The reasons: 

1. The architecture, language support, and selection of software 
  suitable for the school curriculum: 
  http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/prosjektet/innlegg/k12ltsp.html.en

2. The new Debian-installer: 
  http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

3. The community:
  http://ragnarok.marlow.dk/debconf3/ 
  http://www.skolelinux.de/ <- in German
  http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianEdu
  http://developer.skolelinux.no/mailinglister.html

4. The history and successful adaption:  
  http://lwn.net/Articles/47510/
  http://www.skolelinux.de/news.html
  http://www.skolelinux.no/testskoler.php

5. Fujitsi Siemens, IBM and Dell have Skolelinux-ready servers. We also
   working with HP to do the same. The school can also by reused
   class-sets with Skolelinux thin clients as an out-of-the-box
   soloution:

  http://www.inout.no/skolelinux
  http://www-5.ibm.com/no/newworld/2003/1/art7.html
  http://www.hardware.no/art.php?artikkelid=3456

Sincerely,  

Knut Yrvin