Re: Linux in Universities
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 15:15, David P James wrote:
> Dan Kegel was roused into action on 09/12/02 12:48 and wrote:
> > Hi all,
[snip]
> can't provide, even though I am sure they would like to be able to. Just
> training students to mount and unmount a floppy for instance, as we use
> floppies for data storage quite a bit. Not a big task, but nevertheless,
> who is going to do it?
I don't know about KDE, but Gnome 1.4 as the Drive Mount Applet.
Insert the disk and click on the applet icon. The icon changes
to show a "mounted disk". Click on the icon again and it dismounts/
ejects the disk. No problem.
Everyone seems to worry about retraining users onto Linux. Bah! If
you're in University and you can't login via [xgk]dm and click on a
"statistcs" icon in KDE or GTK (just like you do in Windoze), you're
pretty pathetic and shouldn't be at Uni, even if you are at the
College of Education (where, scarily, I saw the stupidest people,
yet who were so proud that they were Dressed For Success).
However, I'd wonder if any FSF/OSS statistical s/w is currently as
full-featured and easy enough to use for non-statisticians or
mathematicians. Alternatively, does your statistical s/w vendor
sell a Linux version, and could you swap the Win-based licenses for
Linux-based licenses?
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