ST Helens LEA (fwd) - marketting BSD over Linux to Students

[Josef Karthauser]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:01:32PM +0100, L. Cranswick wrote:
> 
> 
> Forwarded message:
> > From: "Kevin O'Connor  NetWork Support" <kevin at rainford.org.uk>
> > 
> > Just a quick one, I've just been to a meeting of the IT users group 
> > at ST. helens LEA. Several schools are talking about using Linux
> > would any members of this group be will to address them (maybe a 
> > 30 minute presentation and field some questions on FreeBSD) on 
> > why they should consider FreeBSD. I'm off to Madrid monday for a 
> > few days but if there is any interest I would like to organise it some 
> > time in the 4-6 week time frame
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
> 
> The big marketting problem I see with FreeBSD over Linux 
> for schools/students is ease of installation with respect to
> detection of graphics cards and installation of the
> relevant X-windows.  Linux (Redhat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc)
> seems to have this - FreeBSD does not?  Getting X to work
> is potentially the most painful thing - followed by 
> network cards.
> 
> What FreeBSD options exist here compared to Linux and
> how would this be put to schools/students - where ease 
> of installation would be an issue(?)
> 
> Lachlan.
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