Comments on: The Russian schools Linux pilot goes nationwide

By: ubuntu33

ubuntu33 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:57:12 +0000

EXELENS:

Yes.. I agree..i think Ubuntu is better and much easier for new users..

Maybe you can bring a ubuntu-cd to school and show your teachers?

By: Egor Grebnev

Egor Grebnev — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:06:26 +0000

Randy,

Thanks for your message. I am not directly involved in the project at the moment, and changing its development is out of my power. However, I agree that migration to Free Software must involve not only hardware and software migration, but also development of new skills and new educational approaches, which is far more difficult.

We must admit that nobody is still fully aware how we should use modern computing in education, and I think that the school eduction of the future is currently being forged in the project like yours. Hopefully, the need to focus on educational issues will later be acknowledged by the Russian authorities, and then we may become not only a pioneer in FOSS migration, but also in revealing of FOSS capabilities to their full extent.

By: Randy Fisher

Randy Fisher — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:49:08 +0000

This is great news.

An important benefit of using Open Office is the ability to save / export content in mediawiki format, so that it can be saved to a wiki.

I am involved with WikiEducator, a fast-growing community of formal and informal educators - developing a free and open version of the world’s education curriculum by 2015 (in line with the UN’s Millennium Development Goals). WikiEd is connected to the Wikimedia Foundation, and uses its technology engine. http://www.wikieducator.org

This development is important to us, because as Open Office and FOSS solutions become more pervasive, then educators can more easily develop open educational content, which they can use, share and remix - and further add value for local purposes.

We offer free wiki skills training to any educator, and really anyone who is interested in learning this valuable life-skill. Please visit: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content

- Randy Fisher aka wikirandy

By: Egor Grebnev

Egor Grebnev — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:05:15 +0000

As far as I know, there were about five firms that placed bids for the schools project, but none of them offered Solaris.

By: Jocke

Jocke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:18:27 +0000

Why dont you use Solaris instead? Solaris is an Enterprise operating System Unix that has long drifted systems in Wall Street, etc. Very very reliable. Not like Linux which is not that good. See yourself, one of the Linux kernel developers states that Linux kernel is buggy:
http://lwn.net/Articles/285088/

Solaris has better performance and is more stable than Linux:
http://lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/77-Choosing-Solaris-10-over-Linux.html

Download and try Solaris for free from
http://www.opensolaris.org

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By: Egor Grebnev

Egor Grebnev — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:51:43 +0000

Well, as far as I remember, the necessity of translation in console has been a point of discussion. Although ALT Linux had better made at least an option to enable it, I agree.

But the question that the government is trying to solve is not which distribution to choose (things would have been far too simple this way) but rather who will provide the necessary technical support, educational resources for teachers and kids and who will make all the models of hardware that are deployed in schools Linux-compatible.

By: exelens

exelens — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:07:28 +0000

Yes! We migrate to Linux in schools. But our distros is really sux.

We have 2 distros
1 alt linux. Distr don’t have Russian support in console =( All messages on English. Its not a fanny, Russian Linux with minimal russification.
2 asp Linux. Distr is a copy Fedora 9 =))

Many peoples in Russia prefer Ubuntu or Mandriva.
I prefer Ubuntu =) and write blog about Ubuntu on Russian.