Like the idea. There is going to be an emphasis  on the practical so I&#39;ll probably speak briefly about various popular operating systems and more generally about the main software development models.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 08/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevanf1</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com">kevanf1@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
May I suggest one or more lessons are used to run through the various<br>operating systems available?&nbsp;&nbsp;Windows is as much a part of everyday<br>computing for the majority as Linux is to us.&nbsp;&nbsp;You have an ideal<br>opportunity to show young impressionable minds the differences between
<br>open source software and closed source.&nbsp;&nbsp;The upsides of Microsoft&#39;s<br>system and the downsides together the with the same for open source.<br><br>For example, there are common misconceptions regarding hardware.&nbsp;&nbsp;It
<br>is generally assumed that hardware will just run on Microsoft Windows<br>but it may be a problem with Linux.&nbsp;&nbsp;Well, I can prove that it can<br>equally be the other way round.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Creative Zen Micro is real pain<br>to get working in MS Windows XP.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is not automatically recognised
<br>by the OS and I have found that you need to go through hoops to find<br>the correct drivers.&nbsp;&nbsp;I believe it is simply automatically found in<br>most Linux distro&#39;s.<br>--<br>==============================================
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