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Entries Tagged as 'Education'

Will you be taking an e-reader or tablet to school this fall?

July 12th, 2010 · Comments Off

When I went to college, there were days I’d carry over 20-pounds of books to school in a backpack. Of course, we had it tough back then, “We used to ‘ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o’clock at night and lick the road clean wit’ tongue. We had two bits of cold [...]

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Tags: Applications · Desktop · Ebook · Education · Infrastructure

The little Linux school house

June 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

As I pointed out recently, open-source software in schools isn’t just a good idea, it’s becoming a financial necessity if we’re to keep enough teachers for our kids in classrooms. So, it’s particular good timing that Sugar Labs and openSUSE have released free Linux distributions expressly designed for education. Sugar Labs, for those of you [...]

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Tags: Applications · Education · Linux · Novell · Operating System