if you are desperately in need of staying PC and kowtowing to minorities
What an open-minded response!
Seriously - have you even used Ubuntu or does it's skin color offend you?
As someone who has tried for years to make the switch from Windows to Linux on my personal machine, I am very happy with Ubuntu. I may have been lucky, but it is the first Linux distribution to correctly recognize all of my hardware, install with ease (only had to choose partitioning style and provide an account name), and intelligently figure out how to handle my Windows drive.
Sorry I don't have a lot of experience with the educational software as I primarily use my PC for Internet and office applications. As for maintenance, it's file structure is based on Debian - one of the more logically laid out designs.
I like the suggestion of providing the kids a mixed Windows/Linux environment ("Why not both?")
Where's George is an interesting and fun idea, but the data collected from this voluntary endeavor can not possibly hold a candle to other sources of data on human tracking, such as the GPS in your cell phone.
If the government wants to learn patterns of human transport and interaction in the name of preventing the spread of communicable disease, it could try to subpoena records from credit card companies and have an enormous resource at it's disposal.
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Seriously - have you even used Ubuntu or does it's skin color offend you?
As someone who has tried for years to make the switch from Windows to Linux on my personal machine, I am very happy with Ubuntu. I may have been lucky, but it is the first Linux distribution to correctly recognize all of my hardware, install with ease (only had to choose partitioning style and provide an account name), and intelligently figure out how to handle my Windows drive.
Sorry I don't have a lot of experience with the educational software as I primarily use my PC for Internet and office applications. As for maintenance, it's file structure is based on Debian - one of the more logically laid out designs.
I like the suggestion of providing the kids a mixed Windows/Linux environment ("Why not both?")
I thought it was common knowledge that many/most/(all?) cell phones have enabled GPS tracking technologies. It's part of the e911 efforts and was encouraged by the FCC http://www.fcc.gov/911/enhanced/ to better pinpoint emergency callers' locations. Here's an article that I haven't read that seems to take a closer look at the situation: http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/July-August-200 3/feature_koerner_julaug03.msp/
Where's George is an interesting and fun idea, but the data collected from this voluntary endeavor can not possibly hold a candle to other sources of data on human tracking, such as the GPS in your cell phone.
If the government wants to learn patterns of human transport and interaction in the name of preventing the spread of communicable disease, it could try to subpoena records from credit card companies and have an enormous resource at it's disposal.