Re: [LUG] linux in schools

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Gibbons wrote:
> 
> I have seen on countless occasions Open Source lose out because there 
> has been one application that won't run. Currently the hot potato in 
> schools are interactive white boards. These are specialist items and 
> provide a connection to the desktop/laptop. They also provide a suite

Hardware wise an interactive white board is a large graphics tablet,
some of them will even show up under /dev/input/mice with a bog standard
2.6 kernel.

> of software that is written (as far as I know) for MS only. As long  as
> suppliers continue to think in a narrow MS tunnel this will always  be a
> problem.

Smarttech provides OSX, Solaris, AIX, Irix and some Linux software
(outdated Red Hat, Mandrake & SuSE). Though their OSX software is V8.1.4
and everything else is V8.0, without USB support. Whereas their Windows
Software is V9.1.4...
Promethean provide Windows, Mac OS9 & OSX software only, again the
Windows software has the higher version number.

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