CESI

A bunch of us went up to the Computer Education Society of Ireland conference we planed on showing Skole Linux but a compay called openapp were showing a sarge based version of it. So we decided to switch to our backup plan k12ltsp which is fedora core 3 based Linux terminal server project distro.
It was actually nice surprise that openapp where there, as when people asked can we get support for linux we just pointed them to the openapp stand.The stand consisted of 2 off the shelf thin clients and one converted P2 96 meg ram(POS) and a muiltude of cat5 cable running all over the place.The apple franchise was displaying its wares and the students seem to hang about over there ( it’s apple hardware after all). We seemed the get the people that were interested in saving money. The question that popped up the most was ,did it run microsoft word/access/publisher and the likes, we showed the alternatives openoffice,scribus. We told them that openoffice didn’t have an access equivelent but version 2.0 will have one build in, and is due for release in march(i think) .I got the feeling from poeple, while interested in what we showed them will stick with the microsoft solution for a while longer, which is a shame as I think personally that a linux solution fits schools more that windows.