Re: [seul-edu] Intro

[Emilio Gerardo Milian <egmilian@gene.com>]

For my 2 cents worths: I use a Mac at home and run Yellow Dog Linux on
it.  It is based on the Red Hat 6.1
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ydl_home.html

Also, if you get Virtual PC you can run Windows on your Mac too.

Emilio

Doug Loss wrote:
> 
> bgfay wrote:
> 
> > I just realized that I have yet to introduce myself--just sort of blurted out
> > in the middle of a discussion. My name is Brian and I teach middle school math
> > to at-risk kids in Providence, RI (USA).
> >
> 
> Welcome, Brian!
> 
> >
> > Also, I'm looking to pick up an inexpensive machine for school to start a small
> > Linux group with some kids after school. Our school is all Mac and I am persona
> > non grata for having PC's and thinking that they matter next to the Macs.
> >
> 
> You might consider putting Linux on a Mac for them.  This could have two advantages
> (if politically feasible)--it would show students that there are choices available
> to them no matter _what_ hardware they use, and it would frost the principal
> MacZealots at your school a bit.  I know the Mac people here at the university are
> mildly unhappy when I tell them that their Macs and the other people's Wintel PCs
> are all the same to me, just PCs, so long as they run the standard network
> protocols we mandate for them.
> 
> >
> > Last thing (promise) I've linked to our school's web site below and I am hoping
> > to take over as web master in the coming weeks so as to put up something a
> > little more functional. Speaking of that, I'm looking for a good Linux web
> > design tool. Unfortunately I'm hooked on Macromedia's Dreamweaver and they
> > haven't ported it to Linux (though I'm working on that).
> 
> I don't know of any "WYSIWYG" design tools for HTML on Linux.  Actually, I don't
> know of any for any platform, as HTML is by its very nature the antithesis of
> WYSIWYG if done properly.  Having said that, you might go to Freshmeat
> <http://freshmeat.net> and search on "HTML editors" or something similar and see
> what you find.  Something may appeal to you.
> 
> --
> Doug Loss                 Even if you're on the right track,
> Data Network Coordinator  you'll get run over if you just
> Bloomsburg University     sit there.
> dloss@bloomu.edu                Will Rogers