Re: [LUG] linux in schools - did some probing

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There aren't that many apps that you would really need
> for school use, mostly just an office suite (wp &
> spreadsheet mostly), a web browser, a graphics program
> and possibly something along the lines of an
> encyclopedia

There is an awful lot of specialist software,
quite often utterly awfully written too :)

Even if it only gets run a few times a year
if it isn't there you will have upset teachers.

Some of it is trivial to replace with open source,
other stuff, primarily to do with technology
and SEN isn't...

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