Re: [seul-edu] What do the students think?

[Kevin Brown <dennis.brown@sympatico.ca>]

That is probably true about the 12-15 year olds. All the kids at the school I
goto don't care as long as they can play the games. But one thing they don't
have which I think they'd like is the email. Linux comes default with email so
it wouldn't take much to setup email.

Kevin.

Dan Kolb wrote:

> Kevin Brown wrote:
> >
> >     All of us linux gurus :-) know that Linux is awesome! But, what do
> > the students think? I, myself, as a student love it but what do the
> > other "average," students think of it? Since the students in school will
> > be the ones using it, we have to make sure they will like it. Thanks,
> >
> > Kevin Brown.
>
> Back at school, a couple of friends and I set up a SuSE Linux box to try
> out accessing the Internet through Squid. And it worked out of the box
> quite nicely. However, the teachers still paid up and went for an NT
> box..... (but I digress, anyway, I've got a few rants about the
> computers at school...). Anyway, we also had some user logons so people
> could play around. The people 'in the know' were quite happily using it
> to write little programs, move files around, and generally not much
> else.
> As for the 'average' students, they either ignored it and went back to
> QuickBasic, or got a user and then asked "What can you do with it?". So,
> in my experience, they probably wouldn't care either way with DOS or
> Linux, as long as they could draw circles in different colours (sorry,
> but that's what most of 12-15 year-olds did).
>
> Dan
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