Re: hmmmm....

["Ophidian" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

im not familiar with it, but couldnt it be simulated or replaced with a
browser and webserver?

Casey


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Wilson" <wilsona@clinton.k12.il.us>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: hmmmm....


> The killer app in the k-8 schools in my area is Accelerated Reader.  A
> school could justify a lab devoted to this one program IF it would run
> under Linux.  I have tried it under wine and it doesn't quite work.  I
> have heard indirectly that people have talked with the company: one said
> that the developers had a Linux version that works well; another said
> that the company said that the program will not work under Linux and has
> no intentions of supporting linux.
>
> Accelerated reader would be the perfect application for Linux terminal
> server as the screens are simple and refreshed only after a student
> answers a questoin (low bandwidth).  Most schools keep the test results
> on a central server of some sort.
>
> Alan
>
> Tighe Schlottog wrote:
> >
> > Now, I was sitting here thinking again, I have been doing that alot
lately
> > and the pain seems to be only temporary from doing that.  ;)  But
anyways,
> > I was thinking that with the recent attempted fleecing of the schools up
> > in Washington by M$ and with the "audits" run by the BSA, now might be a
> > good time to start talking to the local schools about free software and
> > the benefits that you can get from it.
>
> The only problem would be those
> > schools that use specific programs that require a windows enviroment to
> > run, such as the Mavis learning series or the Rabbit typing series for
> > example.
>
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