Experience of using Fedora in schools

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Mar 17 02:57:59 UTC 2008


Nicholas Robinson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've finally managed to convince my school that we should consider abandoning 
> XP on the workstations (we've been using fedora servers for several years) 
> and use fedora instead.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience of which is better, gnome or kde, for 8-13 
> year olds? On the basis of four machines, for three days, being trialled by a 
> few children, it would seem that gnome is ahead. I've always used kde though!

Until I upgrade my f8 machine to f9alpha I'd have said KDE.

I think I'd go Gnome (but look at xfce first) until Gnome does something 
to seriously offend me.

Have a look at kde4 by all means, you might like it.


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John

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