On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 09:11, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 8:41 PM -0700 8/4/05, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050804LinuxKickingMicroso > >ftOutOfIndianaSchools.html > > > >My only question is off all the Linux Distros why > >Linspire? > > The schools probably have a lot of Microsoft and other MSWindows software > that they just want to keep using. FC doesn't run windows software, and it > takes knowledge and work to add the necessary stuff and get it working, and > looking familiar. Linspire (formerly Lindows) is for doing that out of the > box. Lots of schools are using the k12ltsp distribution which is based on fedora or Centos, depending on the version and built to network-boot any old PC's as thin clients. Some windows apps will run under wine with this setup, but the sure-fire way is to run them under windows terminal services on their own server (which is also a good way to keep track of what it costs to keep them running), using rdesktop to access the from the linux boxes. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
