DebianEdu Announced

Bill Kendrick writes "There's been an announcement on debian-devel-announce about a new subproject, DebianEdu, which "aims to make Debian the best distribution available for educational use." As a developer with some stuff in Debian Jr., I'm happy to see some focus on an honest-to-goodness education project!"

Comments

It's about time

[frascone]

It seems like the educational market has been forgotten lately. I remember when I was in school, Boreland was offering Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, or the newest thing, Turbo C++ for $69-$99. This was when Microsoft C was around $500.

Everyone I knew had a Turbo compiler. Microsoft lost major ground. And, since the students were most comfortable with Boreland, that was, of course, what they recommended to their future employeers.

But, for some reason, companies have recently been neglecting the educational market. Kudos to Debian for re-starting the trend.

Re:It's about time

[Derwen]

Debian is a bit too late. They will have to be extremely aggressive if they would want folks like us to switch over.

Debian, aggressive?
ROTFL :-)))

Debian GNU/Linux got to be the one true distro (TM), and the most popular with admins, simply by being the best :-)
That's the only strategy Debian has ever had (backed up, of course, by its social contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)) - and that seems to have worked just fine ;-)

In all seriousness, it's great that Debian are doing this - and great that Red Hat do something similar. When every child has access to a Free *nix at school (or even access to a school - never mind a computer) will be the time to start bickering about which GNU/Linux distro has the biggest dick in the edu world ;-)
- Derwen