desktoplinux.com— Mandriva, the France-based Linux distributor, will have a version of its Mandriva Linux 2007 pre-installed on Intel's new low-end laptop for students, the "ClassMatePC."
Mar 29, 2007View in Crawl 4
I use Mandriva since 2001, I really like it, except the bugs in the 2007 release. I even tried Ubuntu and I switched back to Mandriva. In my humble opinion, Ubuntu isn't mature as Mandriva... Personally The day I will buy a new laptop, I will chose it for it hardware spec not wich os is pre-installed, it can be easily changed by the os I want.
I can't believe people actually believe that throwing technology into out public school system will solve ANYTHING. Better Technology != Better Education. (period). Better teachers who feel empowered to teach in creative and innovative methods equal better education. I can tell you from first hand experience that educators are not supported in the current system. No Child Left Behind has helped floundering school districts realize how far behind they are, but it ties their hands in regards to fixing the problem.The opinion that every student should have a laptop to better their education is completely missing the point. Do better cars make better drivers? If we gave every student a computer three things would happen. The smart kids good kids would take advantage of it and use it to excell their work to college levels, making them ideal students. The smart kids who are less, let's say "academically motivated" (I'm not knocking anyone, I was one), will find a way to take advantage of the technology in a direction that has very little to do with formal education. The kids who would have dropped out or failed grades multiple times *read: "the ones who NEED help"*, will not be able to use this to better themselves because they are already unable to survive in the current system's level of autonomy. I would LOVE for every student to have a laptop but any tool is useless without education. "A tool is only as good as it's he who wields it"Summary:Technolgy doesn't educate better.Better educators educate better.Sorry for rant. I hope someone gets my point.
@solidcube (#5935210) said: "Ah, my child, there are many different kinds of linux."And you can open up a shell on all of them. Everybody has their distro(s) of choice but when it comes down to the nitty gritty *nix is *nix, whether that's Gentoo, Fedora, OS X, OpenBSD, or Solaris if you can use man and you know the basics you can probably figure things out. Things like free vs vmstat or requiring flags before args may trip you up but the core utils are similar.So yeah Mandriva may suck to us who prefer debian, gentoo, or slackware but to others it may be nice. Many people *love* Suse and Fedora and I don't care for either one much at all. In the end they are all Linux.
artoisvalMar 30, 2007
I use Mandriva since 2001, I really like it, except the bugs in the 2007 release. I even tried Ubuntu and I switched back to Mandriva. In my humble opinion, Ubuntu isn't mature as Mandriva... Personally The day I will buy a new laptop, I will chose it for it hardware spec not wich os is pre-installed, it can be easily changed by the os I want.
elevMar 30, 2007
I can't believe people actually believe that throwing technology into out public school system will solve ANYTHING. Better Technology != Better Education. (period). Better teachers who feel empowered to teach in creative and innovative methods equal better education. I can tell you from first hand experience that educators are not supported in the current system. No Child Left Behind has helped floundering school districts realize how far behind they are, but it ties their hands in regards to fixing the problem.The opinion that every student should have a laptop to better their education is completely missing the point. Do better cars make better drivers? If we gave every student a computer three things would happen. The smart kids good kids would take advantage of it and use it to excell their work to college levels, making them ideal students. The smart kids who are less, let's say "academically motivated" (I'm not knocking anyone, I was one), will find a way to take advantage of the technology in a direction that has very little to do with formal education. The kids who would have dropped out or failed grades multiple times *read: "the ones who NEED help"*, will not be able to use this to better themselves because they are already unable to survive in the current system's level of autonomy. I would LOVE for every student to have a laptop but any tool is useless without education. "A tool is only as good as it's he who wields it"Summary:Technolgy doesn't educate better.Better educators educate better.Sorry for rant. I hope someone gets my point.
troymcdavisMar 31, 2007
Did anybody notice that in one of the screenshots, the computer is running Windows XP?
tech42erApr 1, 2007
@will,so wouldn't private schools help, too?
tech42erApr 1, 2007
Um...the OS does not control the beauty of the laptop.
nofxjunkeeApr 1, 2007
@solidcube (#5935210) said: "Ah, my child, there are many different kinds of linux."And you can open up a shell on all of them. Everybody has their distro(s) of choice but when it comes down to the nitty gritty *nix is *nix, whether that's Gentoo, Fedora, OS X, OpenBSD, or Solaris if you can use man and you know the basics you can probably figure things out. Things like free vs vmstat or requiring flags before args may trip you up but the core utils are similar.So yeah Mandriva may suck to us who prefer debian, gentoo, or slackware but to others it may be nice. Many people *love* Suse and Fedora and I don't care for either one much at all. In the end they are all Linux.
najmo991Jun 8, 2007
I think am gonna give Mandriva a try, I really like it, . In my opinion, Ubuntu isn't mature as Mandriva... Personally if i want to buy a new laptop, I will chose it for it hardware specs not wich os is pre-installed, anyway since i like it and am French am gonna add the Mandriva website in All my directories <a class="user" href="http://www.indexpedia.net">http://www.indexpedia.net</a> <a class="user" href="http://www.jojodirectory.com">http://www.jojodirectory.com</a> and <a class="user" href="http://www.jubblo.com">http://www.jubblo.com</a> !DUGGED!
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