Re: [seul-edu] Intro

[Mike Wohlgemuth <shred@mail.sail.leon.k12.fl.us>]

I just want to encourage you to look into linux on a mac! ... www.linuxppc.org
or www.mklinux.org both run great!

Mike

bgfay wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > bgfay wrote:
> >
> > Welcome, Brian!
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> > > Also, I'm looking to pick up an inexpensive machine for school to start a small
> > > Linux group with some kids after school. Our school is all Mac and I am persona
> > > non grata for having PC's and thinking that they matter next to the Macs.
> > >
> >
> > You might consider putting Linux on a Mac for them.  This could have two advantages
> > (if politically feasible)--it would show students that there are choices available
> > to them no matter _what_ hardware they use, and it would frost the principal
> > MacZealots at your school a bit.  I know the Mac people here at the university are
> > mildly unhappy when I tell them that their Macs and the other people's Wintel PCs
> > are all the same to me, just PCs, so long as they run the standard network
> > protocols we mandate for them.
> 
> I figure that I had better get an installation under my belt for a little while
> before I think about putting it on the Mac. Besides, I'll probably get my butt
> kicked if I put it on a Mac without asking, and that's the only way I could do
> it.
> 
> > I don't know of any "WYSIWYG" design tools for HTML on Linux.  Actually, I don't
> > know of any for any platform, as HTML is by its very nature the antithesis of
> > WYSIWYG if done properly.  Having said that, you might go to Freshmeat
> > <http://freshmeat.net> and search on "HTML editors" or something similar and see
> > what you find.  Something may appeal to you.
> 
> I think I just need to learn HTML a lot better. I'll keep hoping for
> Dreamweaver, which is really a neat program merging html code and a gui
> interface. Oh well, best to learn the underpinnings and stop mousing around.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Brian G. Fay on Linux
> UCAP: http://www.ucap.org

-- 
Mike Wohlgemuth

Technology Coordinator
Mathematics Teacher
SAIL High School
Tallahassee, Fla.

mikE wohlgemutH  > shred@m21.sail.leon.k12.fl.us
sail higH schooL > http://www.sail.leon.k12.fl.us/

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