[wplug] Sounds like a job for... Linux!
techmike
techmike at access995.com
Thu Apr 22 14:39:59 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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