Australian school chooses Kubuntu over Ubuntu

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/09/linux-extends-life-school-aging

Just an interesting article I've always liked Kubuntu better myself.

 

I found this the most revealing sentence in the article.

 

Makes sense. KDE is said to have a more Windows-like interface.

@timberwolf; why not run those apps w/ Linux? Then you can devote more of your hardware to your work and not to running the OS.

 

I know that Kubuntu is KDE, but What is different between GnomE and kde?

 

The new PCs running Microsoft Vista get moved to the classroom. In the UK, students are now only taught (and have been for sometime actually) to be users - and that sadly is just users of Microsoft Office products, M$ Word, etc. I think that the computing subject taught in schools ought to be more rounded, and at least some ot it ought to be about the basic building blocks of the technology and software programming skills - most will find it boring, but the disadvantage of not doing it is that there is a missed opportunity that could inspire some to be programmers and designers.

 

Different desktop environments
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3671906
http://linuxreviews.org/software/desktops/

 

That WAS depressing.

There are so many things wrong with that sentence.

 

There ain't no replacement for pure CPU power. If the students need to run things like MatLab or whatever, the faster CPU's are better placed in the classrooms than in the library for web browsing and research. A 3GHz Pentium D with 2GB of RAM IS wasted just running as a web kiosk, no matter what the operating system.

 

Pita, what they seem to be implying is that the newer powerful PCs can only be utilised well with MS windows.

 

ROFL, MatLab. I think the world needs to go back and learn about basic maths first - i.e. the world-wide economic downturn due to the sub-prime mortgage lending.

 

****, must be the only school in Australia to use Linux.

I got marked zero for submitting a linux program in my final year of high school. The assignment didn't mention the program had to run on Windows. My Software Design teacher didn't even know how to install Linux. And my IPT teacher laughed at me when I said to him that I didn't have a Windows machine. Quite sad, really.

 

Same here they teach the absolute basics.......
I bring out the command prompt & everyone else is like WTF?

 

I'm tossing a coin on Kubuntu or Ubuntu....man, I can make Kubuntu look so damn good !! I'm using Ubuntu now to see if I can away from it. Pssss....downloading Sabayon 3.5 loop2 DVD...works with my hardware outta da box...I've got an older version on another laptop lol

 

You're joking me right?

@Thomas: lol yes. We ran the command promp under the XPs computer at the school's computer lab and everyone was "HAXORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

@JCMS....WOW on that C90s sig.....

 

I was talking to a friend of mine in his early thirties. He had been working low-level IT jobs with a High School degree and wanted to go back to Penn State to finish a CS degree. I had mentioned that I had learned to program in basic just to be able to operate the apple IIcs at school back in the 80s.

He lit up like a Xmas tree because, in introductory courses, none of the younger Computer Science majors could so much as operate a terminal emulator because they had grown up with technology that had done everything for them.

 

Like my university is doing: crappy p3 500mhz for web browsing and pentium D in the general access lab... the computer used for software engineering are even more powerful...

 

Man I regret installing Kubuntu - I've had so many problems since installing it and I'm resigned in finally installing my "original distro" thought which is Ubuntu.
I mean Compiz, how the hell do I enable it?? Yes its as simple as typing compiz --replace yet when enabled I have even more problems, i.e. not windows borders etc. And thats only the start.

Tommorrow = Kubuntu exit and Intro = Ubuntu (but tempted to install PClinusos )

 

LOL!!!!!!!!
I went into BIOS a few time