Alec Couros is looking for k-12 educators who are involved in the use or advocacy for free and open source software in schools. I just finished his initial questionaire, and I’m excited to see what comes out of his research.

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I realize that this is a question that quite a few people have been asking for a number of years. I think the time may have come, however, when the answer is unhesitatingly maybe In a recent post (Confused about Linux? This may help.) by Alec Couros on his blog, educationaltechnology.ca/couros, Alec points to a review of SimplyMEPIS, a Linux distro of which I was unaware, but which sounds pretty sweet. I have recently installed UbuntuLinux on a spare machine at work, and was impressed with the ease of installation (hint – just keep pressing Enter), and the usable desktop interface that came with the install. I don’t think it is any coincidence that both distros are based on Debian Linux. Its great advantage to desktop users is that once it is installed, you’ll never need to boot from an … Continue reading »