We have pretty much the same problem in the UK. The government is spending huge amounts of money trying to get every student online/computer literate. The schools spend thousands on software licences where they could use linux and save millions of taxpayers money but the decisions are made by clueless, so called network technicians and people who only know about MS Windows And Office. Some schools have decent IT staff but most dont spend the money, they seem to spend 20% of the budget on staff when they could probably cut 30% of costs hiring more expensive people who can use set up a decent linux network. Sun have been offering Star Office free to the schools but they wont even make that switch. The main problem is the RM networks for schools company which makes it near near impossible for a school to goto a linux network.
If its just for dvd to tv consider trying a transmitter from a tvout port and a wireless keyboard/mouse, this setup cost me £60 and is great for films, although it would be useless for applications on a TV screen. On the plus side it will work with any OS supporting tvout
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We have pretty much the same problem in the UK. The government is spending huge amounts of money trying to get every student online/computer literate. The schools spend thousands on software licences where they could use linux and save millions of taxpayers money but the decisions are made by clueless, so called network technicians and people who only know about MS Windows And Office. Some schools have decent IT staff but most dont spend the money, they seem to spend 20% of the budget on staff when they could probably cut 30% of costs hiring more expensive people who can use set up a decent linux network. Sun have been offering Star Office free to the schools but they wont even make that switch. The main problem is the RM networks for schools company which makes it near near impossible for a school to goto a linux network.
If its just for dvd to tv consider trying a transmitter from a tvout port and a wireless keyboard/mouse, this setup cost me £60 and is great for films, although it would be useless for applications on a TV screen. On the plus side it will work with any OS supporting tvout