Previous DayRE:Deploying education desktops - made easier
Blog Comment Hi azonei. You're quire right in stating "most school admin do not want to learn a new system." What's true is that there are an increasing number of schools which are using Linux, so the solution...
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Deploying education desktops - made easier
Blog I've been working on a project to outfit schools with 'spray and wipe' versions of live educational USB-key Linux distros for netbooks, for quite a while; I'll write about this work on here...
