[wplug] Sounds like a job for... Linux!

techmike mikeslists at access995.com
Thu Apr 22 14:40:21 EDT 2004


K12 linux maybe?

-Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net>
To: wplug at wplug.org
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:58:56 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: [wplug] Sounds like a job for... Linux!

> Anyone heard of this project?  Since they're using older PCs, it's
> possible that they're using Linux...
> 
>   <http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04113/304551.stm>
> 
>   Program to link 3rd-graders to Internet
>   Families at 2 city schools to get home computers
> 
>   Thursday, April 22, 2004
>   By Eleanor Chute, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
> 
> [snip]
> 
>   All of that is about to change. Today, children in Ernsthausen's
> class
>   will begin getting home computers, courtesy of the city school
> district.
> 
>   Her class and a class at Clayton Elementary School on the North Side
> are
>   the first participants in Pittsburgh Public Schools' "Emerging Links
>   Project" designed to bridge the digital divide between affluent and
>   nonaffluent families.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>   These are school district-owned computers which have been replaced
> with
>   newer models. For about $90 each, the district has refurbished them,
>   replacing all of the moving parts.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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