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 Anonymous writes "Seen this week on ZDNet by Christopher Dawson.
One request that actually made it past the budget gods for FY10 was 60 convertible Classmate PCs
(30 for each of two schools). These will replace aging stationary labs
in the schools, freeing up needed space and allowing for redeployment
of the older computers for individual classroom and student use.
This
leaves me with a question to answer, though: Do I use Windows XP Home
or Edubuntu?
The teachers largely favor Windows. It’s familiar and they’ll have
enough to do learning the new applications and integrating the tablets
in class, let alone learning a new operating system (or so they say).
Yet Intel has assured me that there will be an equivalent software
stack between the two operating systems, I’ve found that our RTI
software runs quite well under Wine, and Edubuntu itself has quite a
body of educational software available in its repositories.
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