h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ditching Microsoft could save education millions:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/06/133233&from=rss



Might not work because of my RSS reader thingy. If so:

http://www.tes.co.uk/2094985

Thanks, RK, I'm going to e-mail that second link to my father; he's been a computing teacher for years and has always had to battle the school boards about this.

Due to laptop anger I'm thinking of ditching micrsh!t myself

Jerms - Another link your father might also be interested in --http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/03/11/ms_specialist_schools_deal/

Both of these are off slashdot - news for nerds (http://slashdot.org/) which I expect your father already reads, but if not I would certainly recommend it to him!

Ah thank you!

Yes I know Slashdot, and I'm sure he does too. Unfortunately we're both too busy to look at it much... in my case hootoo keeps sucking me into its black hole instead...

It is unfortunately not very visually appealing -- overuse of italics and such.

Yes!!

Here are a couple more links for you:

http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/myths.html

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/report/0,11188,07182005,00.html

GNU/Linux rocks!

Here's some distro links:

Live CDs. Run Linux without installing: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

Up to date distro news:
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02337#0

Other related items:
Software Freedom Day -- Sept. 10, 2005 -- http://softwarefreedomday.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=1

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/25/HNunorganizes_1.html

The Open CD Project:
http://www.theopencd.org/

Open Source rulez!