[Inschool] Re: [KLUG Members] What happened to the discussion about linux in Schools

[Adam Williams]

>I have not seen much on this subject. What happened. 

It has moved here! :)

>I would like to use Linux however, 
>I still can not see running linux as the main OS in a public school 
>system. 

Apparently neither can the public schools as a whole.  But there are LOTS 
of things they can't see.  But they will happily continue to whine about 
funding.  (At least in Grand Rapids it is incessant enough that one wants 
to take a walk over the the administrative builing,  accompanied by a 
large blunt object).  New superindentant in GR got the last milage 
approved using the "Please, give me a chance" argument.  Personally, I 
can't wait till the next one.

>Thanks to the cruddy code and sloppy dos apps that is written for education. 

Dos Apps!!!  Use DOSEMU.  It has been along time since I used it but I 
never met a DOS app it wouldn't run,  even X-Wing ran under DOSEMU.  Then 
all games moved to Windows.... :(  So I gave up on electronic recreation.

On a side note:  We need a WINE guru!!!  I'm clearly missing something 
fundamental in getting it going.  People say "Yes, that app works great 
under WINE".  And for me it basically goes: PPPPHHHFFFFFFFFRRRrrrrpppp...