Satanic ubuntu..........................

My granddaughter uses elementary education applications. I use many
applications in adult and (until recently) employment mathematics, science, and
technology. We both use some applications infrequently. We sometimes wish to
return to the application after weeks without using it. Linux and Ubuntu
applications have very few "box canyon" features (easy to get into, useless to
us, and hard to get out of). Therefore, we don't spend so much time learning
and relearning to avoid (and escape) box canyons—seemingly the major part of
learning applications for the other two operating systems I've used.

Ubuntu applications do what I want with no nonsense. Apparently, the people
writing Ubuntu applications write use them in the same way I do.

Installing new programs on the other operating system I've most frequently used
changed functionality of previously-installed programs. Since I use many
programs, installation interactions got to be a major headache under Windows.
Given the written introductions to Linux packages, I expected horrible mess with
new installations. (They change dependencies other packages use?!!!) But
Ubuntu has never produced any such problems here.

So Ubuntu takes me where I want to go more directly.

Like 9.04? Not so much, because there were a lot of video problems for
users with intel and some ati graphics.

If you want to talk about 9.10, that's a major improvement. The graphics
performance on my test machine (intel i945 video) is the best I've seen yet.

Bottom line, it just works. I am a Microsoft convert who was a happy user from
MS-DOS 3.0 up through Windows 98SE, but hit the wall with Vista on my new Acer
laptop. I had experimented with various flavors of Linux over the years and
decided to give Ubuntu 7.04 a try. In a word, WOW. I dual booted through 8.04
and took the plunge with 8.11 and have never looked back. 9.04 64-bit runs great
on the AMD Turion dual core processor and there has been no problem with the ATI
video. Clean, simple and complete.

It just not Ubuntu! It is the whole Linux/open source movement as a whole. I do
not know how long your class is. It may be time to show several movies in your
class. Or yet new class project to see these on line at their own time. I think
you need to point that out. If Linux was not open source. It would be even a
harder sell.
Revolution OS
video.google.com/videoplay
The Code Linux.
video.google.com/videoplay
The videos are very, very, very, very good learning tools where computer
technology is going to go.
MS hates Linux. Even though a great big 0.83% of desk top users use Linux. It
is the server money that MS hates losing from. Either use Unix or Linux. Linux
is free and the main kernel updates are every six months. It is security that MS
does not have.
Windows is every X amount of what they feel that there is a need to do. Right
now! Is a race of a 64 bit stable kernel. Windows, Mac, or Linux. Right now is
Linux that is ahead of the 64 bit game.
It use to be the the hardware companies waiting for the software companies to
catch up. However, the server business reverse that around. It is catch up to
our technology for a father better 6 million dollar man.
Thus the race is on. What is windows 7 is going to bring? Well some one in mom
and dad's basement with time in their hands to hack the MS system. I can think
of a thousand things to do besides of hacking into the holes of MS.
However, what did MS learn? To tell the user if you run in root and the right
commands. You can hose the system. Linux known all along.
With Mac or windows you are given a choice at the candy store. You can have
vanilla flavor. I am sorry but all we have is this flavor. Or you can have
choice between vanilla or all these flavors that Linux has.
You have the freedom of choosing your desk top. You can run Xwindows for older
computers, Gnome, or KDE for newer ones. Does Mac or MS offer that for older
systems. No they don't. You are given vanilla flavor ice cream with nothing on
top a flavor system. MS or Mac does not even offer solutions of how to take a
older system and make it new again. Linux does. You take that old 486 system and
make a new life again. A old system that is now going to the land fill in MS
world. I seen linux O/S take systems as low 386. That brought a old system back
to life.
Now you are going green to pump that old machine that a average. Now you have rid the yard fill and the monitor it came with.

Tell them this,I am 75 years old and I started a couple years ago using
Ubuntu and Cinelerra. If I can learn this stuff it ought to be a piece
of cake for an 18 year old. I taught myself with the help of this list
and the Cinelerra list. Rafaella Tranello gave advice and wrote help on
line in the form of Cinelerra for Grandma. It's excellent, we should
have more help written by teachers. I have heard some say that Linux has
not arrived yet where video is concerned. I can't speak for the pros but
it sure as heck works for me. The cost of propitiatory photo editing
and video editing a school can buy a lot of hardware. Your students may
have to use proprietary software when they go to work but after learning
Linux they will be light years ahead of those who learned on proprietary
software. My friends are amazed at how much I know about computers and
though I am a neophyte on these Linux lists compared to them I am
way aheadand it's all attributable to Linux.
There is another thing I have built a milling machine out of and
old drill press and am using EMC2 to run it cnc. The software is free
and so was the advice I needed to do it. This would have been out of
reach for me without EMC2. Without Linux I would not have had the know
how to make it work either.
With a teacher who is willing to take on something more as you seem
to be, they are a lucky bunch of young people in my opinion. They will
learn well and I'm sure they will enjoy the added challenge.