Re: [school-discuss] How to present Linux to schools

[Matt Drew <mdrew@redhat.com>]

Cameron Miller wrote:
> Randy Smith wrote:
> 
>> First, thank you all for your responses. I'm beginning a project with the
>> local college to build a sample lab. The I want to use this to 
>> demonstrate
>> Linux and what it can do.
>>
>> My biggest problem is that some of the schools in the area are so poor
>> that they are completely funded by grants (including a few Gates
>> Foundation Grants). That pulls most of the teeth out of the "cost of
>> ownership" arguments.
>>
>> That aside, the tech crew at these schools are all Windows guys. I
>> suggested FreeBSD for a DNS server because the Windows box wasn't
>> working right and I got that blank stare.
>>
>> I have seen asked somewhere (this list maybe) for a list of Windows and
>> OSS equivalents but have not seen an answer. Eg MS Office <=> Open
>> Office. Does anyone know of such a list?
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
> 
> Hey Randy,
> 
> There was such a list of equivalents starting to form a couple of days 
> ago on this list, (either this one or seul-edu) as part of these 
> threads.  I think one of the folks posted it up at the School Forge 
> website?
> 
> - cameron
> 

seul-edu has a chunk of good stuff here:

http://richtech.ca/seul/

but no matching to Windows applications.  The previous message/thread is 
here for those who missed it (like me):

http://archives.seul.org/schoolforge/discuss/Apr-2002/msg00291.html

David Bucknell said it would be posted to opensourceschools.org, but I 
was unable to find it.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

OFSET's Freeduc list is linked from schoolforge:

http://www.ofset.org/freeduc/

Wine has some software listed, but it is mostly higher-level Exam Cram 
type software:

http://appdb.codeweavers.org

Looks like there are holes to be filled with Wine testing for existing 
software, and getting a reasonable comparison database up.  More to the 
point, what are people using now?  What exactly needs to be replaced/ or 
working with Wine?  I'm going to pose this question to our NC pilot 
folks as well, and let you know what comes up.

Matt
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