Amen. The wants are getting in the way.
Has the OP hung out in class and watched what programs are used for the kids?
Last time I started down a road like this; I started by hanging out in class. I quickly realized I was about to spend a lot of time installing a new OS that wouldn't run a large number of the software the kids used without wine.
Just Grandma and Me
Reader Rabbit series
Magic Schoolbus series
Some of that stuff is the same age as the average reader here, ffs. But still very much in use in schools.
Grade school classrooms could give a rat's behind about domain controllers and network shares. They just wanna run their programs.
"Oh," says the linux advocate, "We have equivalents of those kids programs." Right then. Better get buy-in from the teacher before slamming it in, eh? If you haven't convinced the teacher, it don't matter what the kids think. They'll never see it.
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Amen. The wants are getting in the way. Has the OP hung out in class and watched what programs are used for the kids? Last time I started down a road like this; I started by hanging out in class. I quickly realized I was about to spend a lot of time installing a new OS that wouldn't run a large number of the software the kids used without wine. Just Grandma and Me Reader Rabbit series Magic Schoolbus series Some of that stuff is the same age as the average reader here, ffs. But still very much in use in schools. Grade school classrooms could give a rat's behind about domain controllers and network shares. They just wanna run their programs. "Oh," says the linux advocate, "We have equivalents of those kids programs." Right then. Better get buy-in from the teacher before slamming it in, eh? If you haven't convinced the teacher, it don't matter what the kids think. They'll never see it.
Because GSX won't run on all of those XP machines? Server only (win2x and linux afaik).