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[school-discuss] math/science Linux desktop



I'm meeting monday with an Atlanta High School principal that wants to use Open Source applications in his school. He's familiar with the K12LTSP program that Atlanta Public Schools rolled out to 7 schools last year (he was formerly the principal of a middle school that was in the pilot) and APS apparently has 35 more elementary and middle schools lined up for it. So he's a big fan of OSS now. But high schools are different creatures, and there are lots of reasons why selected classes (like math and science) need stand alone desktops for CPU intensive processing.

I'm wondering if there is a Linux package that is geared towards math/science like K12LTSP is to general education. Something that installs with FreeMat, Octave, SciLab, etc. built into it. Anyone seen anything like that?

Daniel

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Daniel Howard
President and CEO
Georgia Open Source Education Foundation