Re: [seul-edu] Re: [school-discuss] our saga continues

[Tom Hoffman <thomas.e.hoffman@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 09:21 am, jeff williams wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 August 2002 07:46 am, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:16, tompoe@renonevada.net wrote:
> > > Hi: What's the M$ license cost for Jefferson Parish?  If it's more than
> > > $1 million, they probably want to listen to Open Source and it's
> > > beautiful melody.  <grin>
> >
> > Not if it involves changeover costs (retraining, re-eqipping, buying
> > Linux equivalents for apps). They'd be caught between Scylla and
> > Charybdis.
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know about teachers, but my university students (mostly freshmen
> and sophmores) can pick up Linux enough for basic tasks in under an hour.
> Yes, the systems administrators need to be trained, but a surprising number
> already have Unix / Linux experience.

My experiences with 7th graders was the same.  It is a big transistion for
sys admins, and probably disorienting to Windows "power users," but the
average user adapts seamlessly.  Put a pc running KDE or Gnome & Open Office
somewhere where people will use it, and you'll see.

--Tom