[geeks] Q: Regarding Linux in K-12 education

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jan 16, 2010, at 4:34 PM, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:

> IMHO it's a bunch of crap. Not only is Linux not suited for large  
> scale desktop deployment for users of this level

Agreed. The supporter of Linux in our district has decided that we  
shouldn't pay for software when there is so much high-quality software  
available. He dismisses every application not available as not  
important (like Dragon Naturally Speaking for kids with learning  
disabilities) as 'trivial' and not worth talking about, but we have  
students whose academic success relies on those applications, most of  
which are only available on Windows...

I also have serious doubts there are any really large (1,000+) Linux  
desktop deployments outside the Linux software industry... Not POS or  
server deployments, but desktop, end-user general computing deployments.

Using Linux as a thin-client solution only gets you partial credit if  
the apps/servers aren't also running Linux native apps.

Lionel