Ubuntu clearly rivals Windows 7 in terms of stability, speed, and functionality. Yet school IT staff who try to take advantage of this free software often meet with serious resistance.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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TDTwister
1 year 47 weeks 3 hours 49 min ago
Argument invalid
Sorry but you misunderstand Ubuntu .... or as a matter of fact all GNU/Linux distributions. The point is helping users use their computers in freedom. If you are going to use proprietary software on top of that then you are not solving the problem you are just reducing it. The correct reason for using any Linux distribution especially in classrooms is teaching people to be free and social. Yes sure all GNU/Linux distributions have some convenient advantages over other operating systems... but it is not the most important part.
DeadSuperHero
1 year 46 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago
Arguement Kind of Valid
But only because of the following: school and library management systems. To my knowledge, Free Software doesn't have an existing implementation of STIClassroom, which is a proprietary program used to track and distribute students grades. It's an immeasurably useful program for teachers, and of course only runs on Windows and Mac.
The educational tools are all there. It's just the management ones that need to get made, then it'd be perfect for schools.