Novell’s openSUSE project has launched a new initiative dedicated to advancing the public awareness of the popular Linux distribution in the educational community.
A new section of the openSUSE website has been designated as a place where educators and technologists who use openSUSE can post stories about their successes, applications used, and “how-to’s,” the team said in the introductory announcement.
The goal is to eventually create an “add-on” CD called “The openSUSE EDU-CD” (aka “The SLEducator”) that eases the installation and configuration of an educational network and student desktops, the team said. This could work into a sort of “ERP [enterprise resource planning] for education,” the team stated in the announcement of the initiative.
“As more and more schools evaluate Linux as a cost-efficient alternative for their running systems in a way that will be ‘ready for the future of education’ and as more and more home users find out, that their children need a PC (and good PC knowledge) to have a stake in the future,” the team added.
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