Installing Windows after Redhat Linux is installed
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Apr 27 15:26:55 UTC 2005
Jim Cornette wrote:
> NDUMISO MKHWANAZI wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> A computer was donated to my wife's school . It has Redhat
>> Linux/Fedora preinstalled . How can you install WindowsXP and
>> OfficeXP,on the computer as this is what the kids are already familiar
>> with ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ndumi
>>
>
> Young people catch on naturally to new things. Their minds are more apt
> to learnig new things. It would be a shame to have to put $300 USD to
> buy the OS and $600 more to buy office.
>
> I was amazed as to how quickly young people navigated around the GNOME
> desktop.
>
> Let them learn on Linux. Save money and put into education instead of
> monopolistic entities.
>
Yea, my 8 year old has no problem working between OS's and using OOo.
Heck, she has even done some things that I didn't even know about.
Kids are great testers. :)
If you do use MS products, you could end up like a school system in
Oregon that was audited by MS for software. It cost them a fortune.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,101601,00.asp
And we all know that schools have more money than they know what to do
with.
--
Robin Laing
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