Paul McNett wrote:
> To my surprise, here's a bootable Windows XP Live CD (or instructions on
> how to do it):
>
> http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
>
> However, this is of course encumbered with all kinds of licensing
> issues. Which brings me to the other point you should talk about: with
> Linux, you *are free* to put it on *any number* of CD-Rom's, USB-Keys,
> wristwatches, or supercomputers that *you would like to*, without paying
> a penny more for that privilege. Just try to do that with Windows, and
> live to tell about it. :)
>
agreed.
I think shows like this should try to pull on some heart strings. many of the
people seeing this: "every few years I pay $X for a new computer, it has most of
what I need, why do I care?" Maybe this would spark something: "Because you
would be helping the progress of software that schools can use, freeing up funds
to be used on more educational things than driving up M$ stock."
As in: http://edubuntu.org "The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit
of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment."
Not sure if bashing MS is good, but what keeps me driven: "MS is a for profit
company. There #1 goal is to increase the stock value. There marketing and
legal departments seem to do a better job than software development."
My local Library spent a ton of $ (10k's) on there 'computer lab' which is
basically 15 P2 workstations running W98, Office and IE. There is a "for charge
printer" on the LAN. 2 years ago I looked into a Linux based version of that.
Couldn't find anything 'packaged' or 'HowTo-ed'. I am sure with a ton of work
something could be constructed, but at least 2 years ago it didn't seem like
good business sense to me. (given that they can't get back the ton of $.) As
long as you are going to be there, you may want to poke around ahead of time to
see if anyone has done something.
Good luck with the demo.
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