Am 30. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Mark Jarvis so:

> Some personal comments on Linux in education:
>
> At PVCC, for our Linux classes, we're using WBEL (White Box Enterprise
> Linux), a free, clone from source, of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
> The students install it on their individual workstations.
>
> Pros: It's a purposefully stable, well tested, not on the "Bleeding
> Edge" distro. It's very simple to install and the YUM updates are dead
> easy (MUCH nicer than RPM). It also has a very active user group.
>
> Cons: The Gung-Ho hobbyists are put off because WBEL stays somewhat back
> from the Leading Edge of Linux development--its current version uses the
> 2.4 kernel. (It's been almost 18 months since RH announced RHEL, so the
> next release (w/ 2.6 kernel) is expected "soon".

That all seems a different question, but, yes, a stable server environment
is a good thing.

> Open Office 1.1: While it is worlds better than the original Star
> Office, when compared to the current MS offerings, it is basically
> "adequate". Having taught for several years, I had 100+ MB of fairly

What are some of the missing features? Will they be in the next release?

What are some features that OO.o has that m$ doesn't?

> complicated Word & PowerPoint documents built up. Most have now been
> converted to OO.  Pretty nearly all required some tweaking. There is

Was it macro tweaking? What were the main issues?

> some learning curve--Open Office is not MS Office and many things are
> done differently. Not wrong, just different. BTW, OO also has a Windows

Yeah, watched someone who's very familiar trying to figure out OO.o. At
first he was put off by a bunch of the differences, but in the end he was
happy with OO.o.

> version which works very well. Although OO can read & write documents in
> MS Office formats, documents in its native formats are often 1/3 to 1/6
> the size of their MS Office counterparts. This can be a significant
> advantage.

Yeah, the m$ and mac ports are good selling points for OO.o.

ciao,

der.hans
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