>From my kids' experience ( 12 + 16 ), "technical" issues are about office products (Heb OO will do fine here) and the rest of the activity is web search (Meida'anut whatever that means in English) and remote learning. As a linux layman , I can vouch for Mandrake or RH (DONT flame) as more than adequate. My kids are doing just fine with it at home, especially after I installed phpbb :) As once a PTA member, I can tell you that upgrades , hw and sw, are major setbacks and any help will be welcome. The main issue is that MOE (Ministry of Education) through MATAH, provides binding M$ software used in the curriculum. I wonder if they can be forced to provide software on other platforms.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilad Ben-Yossef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jonathan Ben Avraham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ely Levy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "ILUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:10 PM Subject: Re: Edu in linux > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:19, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > > > home. The Windows vocabulary has entered our daily Hebrew speech. My kids > > (all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments in > > doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife > > is in a masters program at Touro College and Beit Morasha where the > > homework assignments are distributed in Word and the homework must be > > submitted in Word. I suggest that you actually go try to talk to these > > people about Linux and see what happens. > > What happens if one does not have money to buy Word & Windows licenses, > especially if one needs more then one computer (10 kids...)? > > I assume of course that most if not all the software copied actually > used are illegal, but I'm pretty sure the question crossed your mind and > wondered if you asked it? > > Gilad. > > -- > Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://benyossef.com > > Q: "What do you do if your Linux box goes down?" > A: "Sit around in the dark until the power comes back on" > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
