Guest JaseP Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 The following press release from SuSE indicates that they are donating over 700 packages of their software to the Allentown, Pennsylvania school district (actually a program that supplies the schools with computers). The article/press release can be found at the following web address: http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press...ve03/lvcfk.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Good for them! , Have a lot of fun! :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 This is excellent for three reasons: 1) It shows another operating system as a part of the computing industry, besides mac and windex. 2) It shows an aspect of the linux community aiding education. Major pr!! 3) It should turn the heads of several media type people who are currently imprisoned by "windex is all in all" sort of thinking. Caution: the following is a rant So, for us mandrakian types: Where is Mandrake? Is this too business like to do?? Not enough money to market for free like this??? End of rant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeg Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 SuSe employs better publicists. You will probably find Mandrake on more student PCs than SuSe, especially in my area, Northern Virginia. The Mandrake download and basic edition are easier to get and provide more flexibility than SuSe. Check out the Yorktown High site and planned fall InstallFest, as an example. In the fall of 2001, the C++ class at Liberty High used Mandrake 8.0 for their development suite. Auto-install and a package selection floppy eased installs on the computer lab boxes. Every student was offered a disk set; most took one. Many of those students still use Mandrake, including my daughter who put 9.1 on her new laptop next to WinXP. Unfortunately, Liberty dropped their programming classes in favor of tech classes in web site development, computer graphics and such -- all using proprietary software on a common proprietary OS. If you use Linux, get involved. Volunteer to give a talk on Linux for a school computer club. When MandrakeStore offers 9.1 boxed sets at huge discounts (after 9.2 is released), donate a few bucks to the school library if they'll order on school letterhead. Recruit some help and offer to do installs. Turn a club meeting into an installfest. Then volunteer as one of the adult sponsors for the school LUG that will naturally grow out of the installs. Then... Plant a seed and it'll grow. Teenagers in your area will move on to college and eventually careers. In 2012, they will buy SuSe, the Linux that they know and love. In Northern Virginia, it will be Mandrake and RedHat. It's all good for Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Just a slight correction to what you said: It isn't that suse has a better publicist, it is that suse has a publicist! You see, poor Mandrake just can't afford to market. (sniffles) Am I being too sarcastic?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Ix: you're never too sarcastic ;-) As for Allentown getting linux, maybe that'll open up a job opportunity for some of the PA residents on this board :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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