Bloomington North's Linux Initiative in the News

[Simon Ruiz]

Scott,
 
Well, the Indiana ACCESS program provides funding for the computers and the desks. The only requirement, I believe, is that they use Linux. MOST of the schools are running the Novell products, because Novell took an active interest early on in the program. In fact, we sort of paid for NLD 9 by default in the first four classrooms, and our computers came with a rather badly put together NLD9 image that had some issues (both GNOME and KDE, OpenOffice1.9 and 2.0 AND StarOffice 7, would drop randomly to the command-line, etc.).
 
I had already looked into and started developing a familiarity with Edubuntu and figured we'd have an easier time creating a new image from the ground up than trying to strip out all the unwanted bits from the existing image and debugging all the random little problems. We checked with the State to make sure it was ok with them, and converted everything over to Edubuntu. We've ended up moving over to plain vanilla Ubuntu this year, since the difference in our situation is mostly cosmetic, but may move back again in the future, who knows?
 
To answer your question, the program is distribution agnostic and the schools can choose as they wish, it's just that most people don't MAKE a choice and the Novell product is the default. There is at least one other school in the state using Ubuntu, and at least one school using Red Hat.
 
Take care!
 
Sim?n
 

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From: los2chapines at gmail.com on behalf of Scott Ledyard
Sent: Thu 3/1/2007 12:53 PM
To: Simon Ruiz
Subject: Re: Bloomington North's Linux Initiative in the News


Simón
Thanks for sharing this interesting article - though I'm somewhat biased being a native Hoosier and having gone to college in Bloomington :-)  

I do have a question though: I thought the IN ACCESS program was using SLED. Does the state provide funding for any use of Linux? 

Scott
Cincinnati, OH


On 2/27/07, Simon Ruiz <sruiz at mccsc.edu> wrote: 

	Bloomington North's Indiana ACCESS program has been highlighted in the news at linux.com <http://linux.com/>  in a story about Edubuntu.
	
	Also of interest--at least to me--Efrain Valles, the Venezuelan educator who's story is highlighted in the section "A Third World solution", is a friend of mine, and I've work with him to provide support for the schools he's introducing to Edubuntu. 
	
	We're world famous, yay!
	
	Simón
	
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	From: Melissa Draper [mailto:melissa at meldraweb.com]
	Sent: Tue 2/27/2007 5:12 PM 
	To: Richard Weideman; hostmaster at grawert.net; Efrain Valles; Simon Ruiz
	Subject: Article is now available
	
	
	
	The article was published about an hour ago at
	http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/197251
	
	*yay*
	
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