I think the best way to advocate Linux, is to have companies like HP, DELL, bundeling Linux with PCs. These companies would be able to build their own OS on top of Linux, and since Linux is open source and extremely customizable, it's not hard to make it idiot proof.
I'm currently setting up a Linux testbed network. Basically, the server is going to hold all the programs and XFCE, the clients would retrieve the programs over the NFS from the server. This way, only 1 copy of software needs to be maintained, hard disk space requirement would also be lowered, and of course it's way more secure than our Windows network, each program only takes about 2 seconds more than normal time to start. The downside though, is the need of teaching students how to use it, that's what the teacher will do once we finish this network. It wouldn't be much different in terms of usage compared to Windows.
A more challenging roadblock for Linux is the lack of international language support, IMO.
I'm a gr. 10 student, my school in the Greater Toronto Regional, we ended up being the second best rookie in the GTR. Over 80 teams were there at the Greater Toronto Regional, this competition certainly encourages learning. FIRST is a great opportunity for students who want to put into practice what they learned in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, and Physics. Students have shown some very brilliant designs in the competition, this contest would certainly encourage students to go into engineering.
I think supplying cheap VEX parts to schools is a good idea. The regular competition can be very expensive. The robot we built, costed $6000 dollars, and it's not even that great. The prices for the parts are way too high, for example, just one pneumatic cylinder costed us about $80, not to mention other stuff like motors, pneumatic regulators, festos, wheels, steel, operator interace, etc. IMO, every school with computer engineering or computer science courses should get their students one of these kits.
the first line should be
"Apt-get HANDLES the download, installation and resolves your dependencies for you, I think it's the best package management system fro Linux so far."
I got carried away when I was typing:)./
Apt-get the download, installation and resolves your dependencies for you, I think it's the best package management system fro Linux so far. The graphical front end "Synaptic" is also really good, it's intuitive and easy to use. Emerge is not bad either but you wouldn't want to go through the long hours of compiling from source.
Also, Autopackage has an O.K interface. I'm saying this because by looking at the screenshots, it doesn't let you mark multiple items, search database or manipulate repositories what synaptic lets you do. Another thing is, I don't think an interface like that would be effective when managing about 2000+ packages that I have on my Linux system,.
My science teacher who is also a computer science teacher participated in th is meeting hosted by Cisco, she brought back one of the videos showed in the meeting and played it for us. I think the name of the video is "I am an Engineer" or something like that, and it's supposed to encourage more girls into technology and computer industries.
Right now, there far more males than females in the technology field. Out of my 30 student computer science class, only 2 students are female. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the F/M ratio of slashdot users is almost *:99.99 either. We should really get girls to like technology more. The causes of this male dominance include social expectations/standards, environment which they grow up....etc.
True but if they partner with Dell, they could expand their manufacturing.
AMD makes good quality chips, but Intel is probably giving Dell benefits to try to persuade Dell to stay away from AMD?
DELL isn't gonna stay in the desktop PC business too long if they don't change their strategies a bit. DELL machines and parts are way over-priced, customers are getting smarter and smarter. Those smart enough probably won't buy a DELL.
I saw this stuff on my almost 5 year old science text book, excatly the same car. Why are they still making a big deal out of this? They should stop whoring for attention and get some real progressive done!
Linux supports more hardware than Windows, uses less resources too. But it's really not up to linux developers in terms of supporting certain hardware. The power lays in hands of hardware manufactures, not developers. So, the best solution to Linux's hardware compatibility would be to make it more popular, then the manufactures would take Linux compatibility into consideration.
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I think the best way to advocate Linux, is to have companies like HP, DELL, bundeling Linux with PCs. These companies would be able to build their own OS on top of Linux, and since Linux is open source and extremely customizable, it's not hard to make it idiot proof.
A more challenging roadblock for Linux is the lack of international language support, IMO.
Get a Pentium 1 laptops or something and use it as a portable manual.
"A seminar on time travel will be held 2 weeks ago."
You guys were in the Greater Toronto Regional? I think I saw your robot there.
I'm a gr. 10 student, my school in the Greater Toronto Regional, we ended up being the second best rookie in the GTR. Over 80 teams were there at the Greater Toronto Regional, this competition certainly encourages learning. FIRST is a great opportunity for students who want to put into practice what they learned in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, and Physics. Students have shown some very brilliant designs in the competition, this contest would certainly encourage students to go into engineering. I think supplying cheap VEX parts to schools is a good idea. The regular competition can be very expensive. The robot we built, costed $6000 dollars, and it's not even that great. The prices for the parts are way too high, for example, just one pneumatic cylinder costed us about $80, not to mention other stuff like motors, pneumatic regulators, festos, wheels, steel, operator interace, etc. IMO, every school with computer engineering or computer science courses should get their students one of these kits.
the first line should be "Apt-get HANDLES the download, installation and resolves your dependencies for you, I think it's the best package management system fro Linux so far." I got carried away when I was typing :)./
Apt-get the download, installation and resolves your dependencies for you, I think it's the best package management system fro Linux so far. The graphical front end "Synaptic" is also really good, it's intuitive and easy to use. Emerge is not bad either but you wouldn't want to go through the long hours of compiling from source.
Also, Autopackage has an O.K interface. I'm saying this because by looking at the screenshots, it doesn't let you mark multiple items, search database or manipulate repositories what synaptic lets you do. Another thing is, I don't think an interface like that would be effective when managing about 2000+ packages that I have on my Linux system,.
My science teacher who is also a computer science teacher participated in th is meeting hosted by Cisco, she brought back one of the videos showed in the meeting and played it for us. I think the name of the video is "I am an Engineer" or something like that, and it's supposed to encourage more girls into technology and computer industries. Right now, there far more males than females in the technology field. Out of my 30 student computer science class, only 2 students are female. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the F/M ratio of slashdot users is almost *:99.99 either. We should really get girls to like technology more. The causes of this male dominance include social expectations/standards, environment which they grow up....etc.
True but if they partner with Dell, they could expand their manufacturing. AMD makes good quality chips, but Intel is probably giving Dell benefits to try to persuade Dell to stay away from AMD?
Dell was saying that they decided not to use AMD chips because its customers don't trust the stability and performence of AMD chips.
DELL isn't gonna stay in the desktop PC business too long if they don't change their strategies a bit. DELL machines and parts are way over-priced, customers are getting smarter and smarter. Those smart enough probably won't buy a DELL.
What can we use it for? What's the purpose of attempting to find larger prime numbers?
I agree with most of your statements, but HongKong was returned to China in 1997, not 1989.
I saw this stuff on my almost 5 year old science text book, excatly the same car. Why are they still making a big deal out of this? They should stop whoring for attention and get some real progressive done!
Linux supports more hardware than Windows, uses less resources too. But it's really not up to linux developers in terms of supporting certain hardware. The power lays in hands of hardware manufactures, not developers. So, the best solution to Linux's hardware compatibility would be to make it more popular, then the manufactures would take Linux compatibility into consideration.
why develope linux in iraq if nobody can afford a pc??
soon microsoft will own the internet
i think they can compete with celeron
simply because too much noobs use windows, and i have to use windows because 80% of people use windows!