Re: [seul-edu] Linux in Elementry

["Matt Jezorek" <matt@bluelinux.org>]

As far as the distro. I think that it can help lots of people on moving to
linux as well. If a school called a consultant in now to ask them "What do
we need to move to linux?" and you tell them well you need
$yourfavdistro$ and it will run on all your hardware you have currently.
"Well what about educational games, software, programs" here is where you
have to go everywhere looking and finding what they are needing. We propose
a simple solution. "What do we need to move to linux?" then if Blue EDU is
around and you CHOOSE to use it seeing linux is based on the freedom. then
you could say "Ahh you need Blue EDU" of course what about the question
"What about educational games ......." you can reply "Thats included in Blue
EDU" minus the very specified things. We would work on including and
incorporating the main needs of schools into it but create an easy way to
get new stuff. This is just an example of why we are doing it. Just seems
like lots of people are discouraged from going to Linux in general because
you have to go here and there to get anything done sometimes.

-matt

P.S. we cant make this work without the support of the community . We thank
everyone on this list for helping

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Kendrick" <nbs@sonic.net>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Linux in Elementry


> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:34:41AM -0700, Jennifer Dozar wrote:
> > I am getting together with an elementary school teacher about trying to
> > get a linux lab set up for the elementary school kids. She likes some of
> > the games I've showed her, and she has brought her kids to our community
> > lab. And they seemed to really enjoy it.  I showed her Tux Typing Monday
> > evening, and she thought it was adorable :) And I showed her
> > Linuxforkids.com and she wanted to see what those games were like. But
> > since she ran windows, she couldn't get them to run.
>
> Actually, some games (for example, a number of mine :) ) are being
> written in a portable way.  My "Circus Linux!" game, for example,
> is portable to Windows, MacOS, BeOS, etc., since it uses the libSDL
> library.
>
> I provide binaries for Windows, MacOS (although I haven't gotten it to
> work on any Macs I've tried), and BeOS, along with source-code
> (suitable for Linux users).  Others were gracious enough to send me
> the Mac and BeOS ports.  I rolled the Windows one myself using
> a cross-compiler under Linux. :)
>
>
> > I would say for your Distro, don't get too far ahead of yourself, but it
> > will bepossible :) Just hang in there while Linux is slowly taking a
hold
> > on schools.
>
> Well, I wouldn't discourage folks from working on a distro, as a nice,
> simple drop-in answer to a school's needs is better than a disparate
> collection of software. ;)
>
> -bill!
>