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[school-discuss] School Admin Software

One of my worst nightmares has befallen my school: a proprietary, Windoze only administration package is being implemented: Rediker. 

I have been one of few who has cleaved to GNU/Linux in my school system.  To make a long story short, either I'll repartition my laptop's drive (small enough at 40GB), or learn to run Rediker in either an emulator or a virtual environment like Vmware.  I have used Crossover Office when students needed access to shockwave virtual labs, and for alot of other plugins.  Do I have a prayer of getting Rediker's school software running on CX Office?  Vmware?  Is VMWare suitable for basically emulating Windows XP in a window, to run this one program?  Maybe even Wine is good enough?  I have used Wine?

So my question to the list is this: has anyone any clues about how to start the latter? 

My voice is much in the minority when I complain that we have no books, but you are spending thousands and thousands on a proprietary package.  The local economy is in a stall/tailspin right now, but that doesn't stop this sort of inanity.

I have been quite happy using GNU/Linux for the past 14 years.  I could just as well live without it now.  I have gotten used to a different way of doing things, but I can get things done I could never do on WIndows.  Teachers/Educators are the last, I think, to get the "good news."  M$ probably spent a lot of money hooking them up, during earlier educational years. 

I'm not going to get far be refusing to install WIndows back on the machine that was given to me with WIndows installed.  But I hope to put up a decent amount of resistance.

Alan

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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan  lngndvs@xxxxxxxxx  

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