It is reported that 9000 PCs in Swiss schools will have Windows removed and become FOSS only computers. Geneva newspaper Tribune de Geneve reports today that from September 2008 all computers at schools that currently are dual-boot MS Windows and … Continue reading
Kubuntu, the KDE version of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is now shipping CD’s out to interested individuals free of charge. If you’ve been looking for an excuse to try a distribution of Linux, this may be the opportunity you’ve … Continue reading
I’ve been waiting on this for a while now, and thanks to Peter Rock for giving me the heads up. The first release of Edubuntu, an educational version of Ubuntu Linux, is now available for download. Edubuntu is a flavour … Continue reading
Interesting story. When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Millbrook, Ala., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. This sounds like an interesting learning … Continue reading
Brian Lamb recently wrote one of those posts that made me get up from my seat and point frantically at the screen in agreement. Re: finding a solution for inexpensive course hosting, Brian writes: This approach is fatally flawed in … Continue reading
I admit it, I’m biased, I’m spoiled by my Mac. I prefer to do all of my daily work on either OS X or Ubuntu Linux. Yet, when I walk into my teaching world, I get to experience the joys … Continue reading
Today, ZDNet UK featured a special article focused on open source in education. It’s a good read with some excellent points, and since this is a huge interest of mine (and the reason for my very infrequent blogging), I’ve provided … Continue reading
I’ve been busy … and I notice that when I am busy, my “I’ve gotta blog this!” threshold increases to the point that very few things become “blog-worthy” to me. However, after looking at a recent article in Wired titled … Continue reading
I’ve been using Skype with both my Mac and Windows machine (and a l’il on Ubuntu Linux), and while it has been working fine, I haven’t been able to record the conversations easily on my Mac. I attempted an overly … Continue reading