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The primary school in Saint Léger en Yvelines (France) has nearly completely switched to using free software reports the village's deputy mayor Olivier Guillard. "Do not underestimate the task", he advises others on the forum of Etalab, France's open government portal, "and, most of all, persist".
Saint Léger en Yvelines is a commune some 50 km west of Paris. The village has one school, with 6 classes, and includes pre-school. The Jean Moulin school is attended by all of the around 30 children in the commune up to the age of 11. On [April 15], deputy mayor Guillard published his recommendations for others that want to "free their schools from the commercial agenda of proprietary software vendors". Free software is unhindered by the constraint of financial profitability, he argues: there is no planned obsolescence and no lock-in to specific hardware.
Olivier Guillard urges rigorous testing of solutions before suggesting them to teachers. Just as important is to convince the teachers of the benefits of free software. He also recommends being proactive on maintenance and monitoring.
He cautions patience. The school's transition to free software took years, he writes. "Seven years of convincing. Seven years to find free software alternatives for each new commercial offering. Seven years of creating a dialogue and building communication channels with teachers dedicated to digitisation of education."
The school has not rid itself of proprietary software completely. Whiteboard solutions and office documents exchanged in France's education sector forces teachers to use proprietary software, for which the school keeps apart two PCs with proprietary office tools, the deputy mayor writes.
Blogger, Linux advocate, and retired 1-man school IT staff Robert Pogson has a short (two paragraph) post. [It offers several open-source software alternatives as well as hardware recommendations — fair use precludes including the whole post here. -Ed.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @08:05PM
You know what? I just compiled Enlightenment E19 last summer without any systemd, and systemd is an explicit dependency of Enlightenment. I haven't had the time to try E20, but I have a feeling it will be similar. There are quality ebuilds out there for Gentoo users who have a section in their package mask file that is simply labeled "Poettering" (no systemd, pulseaudio, or networkmanager tyvm).
Maybe I won't ever experience Unity or Gnome 3 without systemd. I'm not certain what I'm missing out on there. I've been a happy XFCE user for quite a while now, with some dabbling on the side. lxdm gets me logged in without needing systemd.
For servers, steering clear of systemd is a breeze. My NAT/UPnP/IPv6 router/DNS cache/DHCP/radvd/wireless AP box is systemd-free just fine. It's also X windows free because there's no goddamn reason for X windows to be on there. Same with my server in the clouds (Apache/PostgreSQL/Dovecot/InspIRCd/XMPP/tons of crap).
Jfyi, I'm waiting for the ebuilds to stabilize for the new nVidia driver that was released for Wayland/Mir. I'm sure there's a repository/overlay out there that has it, I'm just too lazy to find it. Also too lazy to compile from source myself like I used to when I was younger. But I'm excited about finally at least being able to try to move to Wayland and unmerging the shit out of X windows if successful.
Just because something is new doesn't mean it's shit. Please at least whine about your mysterious lack of network transparency in Wayland before the time to spread FUD about that is over. I actually have no idea if systemd is shit or not these days. I don't care about systemd for being systemd. I just don't think Lennart Poettering and friends can code worth jack shit, and I'm perfectly happy with grub/OpenRC/getty/lxdm. It's as simple as that.
Just stop posting this systemd is a lizard people conspiracy-quality shit. At least post something entertaining like the apps guy on the old site.