[Inschool] [Fwd: [Fwd: [KLUG Members] New LINUX products]]

[Adam Williams]

>Here is a email reply from my school board connection, and the questions
>that he has.
>Does anybody know if Linux can run some/all of these programs?

Do you mean 'those programs exactly' or equivalents?

>I talked to him tonight and he said "...if there's any of them that
>won't run, then its' not worth it to use Linux..."

I'll guarantee that 100% of the applications they currently use will NOT 
run on Linux.  So if they want to use it as a verbatim Windows replacement 
we can just forget about this now and save ourselves the trouble.

>Any suggestions? Does anybody _know_if there would be a problem with
>linux running any of these mentioned below?
>- Student learning (Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, Kid Pix, Mavis Beacon,
>    Jumpstart, NovaNET, and many others)

We are testing some of these.  Some will probably work,  we will probably 
find some that do not.

>- Writing notes to parents (MS Word, MS Works)
>- Creating presentations (MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Works)
>- Developing newsletters (MS Publisher, MS Works, and others)

Are equivalents acceptable?  Not one of the above applications will work 
on Linux.

>- Recording grades and scores (I think this SW is provided by KRESA)

Almost certainly not.

>- Writing and reading e-mail (MS Outlook, AOL, and others)

There are lots of MUAs.  Outlook will NOT work, and no AOL support.

>-Surfing the web (Internet Explorer, Netscape)

Sure. :)