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Re: [seul-edu] Comprehensive Student Management System
Doug Loss wrote:
> This gets to something I've been thinking about recently. We're working on
> gaining acceptance for Linux in education. If we put web-based front-ends on
> everything we do, I think we may be relegating Linux to servers and back-end
> systems, as we're removing the reason for having Linux on the desktop.
Not necessarily (although I am sensitive to your argument). It is still
possible -and I've started to sewe it here and there- of people who
write apps that operate locally but that you interface through a
browser.
As far as the desktop is concerned, I still think we have steps to go,
both with the types of apps made available, and with the desktop
itself. Enlightenment/EFM is still (IMHO) closest to that goal. It has
the most malleable and open framework, and shows some real unique
methods to addressing the desktop, both from a usuablity and from a
feature standpoint.
IOW, 'We'll get there'.
z
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