Re: [seul-edu] Great do list from Teemu: Forming a coalition -- LEARNUX

[Phil Collins <philosofr@yahoo.com>]

Not to be a party-goer, but no one appears to have used the all-caps
acronym LEARNUX.    LEARNUX, Linux Education Archive Research and
News Users eXchange, also a combo of Learn and Linux, appears to be
available to SEUL or any other first taker.

A Google search of LEARNUX showed 2 uses of Learnux, one an inactive
computer project, the other as a sample directory name.   Several web
sites misidentified Learnux as a Linux distro, including a Chinese
site which listed Linux distros and some postings on SEUL.  Learnux
is the Learnux Project of the inactive CLUE (Canadian Linux Users
Exchange) Learning Center to put its own mini-Debian distro called
Minideb on computers for kids.  The CLUE Learning Center web site was
officially frozen on March 17, 2000, at http://centre.linux.ca/  
Miniideb and the beta version, December 4, 1999,  of the PDF Learnux
Quick Start Guide to Linuz are available at the frozen web site.  I
emailed the contact persons about the Learnux name and Guide.  The
other use of Learnux is as a directory name for student exercises in
the appendix of a German language manual on learning HP-UX
(Hewlett-Packard Unix).  (Note that Google translated the German, but
not the Chinese, site -- though the Chinese site distro names were in
Roman/English characters).

Note:  Another Linux for kids group, active this year, 2001, is Geeks
Into The Streets at 
http://linux.umbc.edu/gits/

Note:  SEUL already hosts a Linux distro, the 386 and up,
many-floppy, TINY, at http://'tiny.seul.org .  Brave GNU World
reviewed TINY on August 21, 2001, 
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-30.en.html
stating:

Due to an acute lack of time, the project is currently halted. Also
feedback from evolving countries is still lacking. So the current
team would like to turn over the project to another group of people
that they would give every help and support they can.
--- Doug Loss <drloss@home.com> wrote:
> Phil Collins wrote:
> 
> > Acronyms:
> >
> > LEARNUX = Linux Education Archive Research and News Users
> eXchange
> >
> 
> Not to be a party-pooper, but the Toronto LUG already used LEARNUX
> for
> their school outreach program (now defunct, I think).
> 
> --
> Doug Loss                 Always do right.  This
> Data Network Coordinator  will gratify some people
> Bloomsburg University     and astonish the rest.
> dloss@bloomu.edu                Mark Twain
> 
> 



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