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On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:19:53PM -0800, rekaye1005@earthlink.net wrote: > I am a teacher/net admin at a phila high school. I have started a unique > program to train high school kids for tech support/help desk. It is > working. I would like to expand it throughout the city. I want to add Linux > to the environment. Two questions... > > 1) Distributions and versions seem to change a breakneck speeds. No Money!!! > Suggestions/feedback? I have started with RedHat 7x/9x. Is the Fedora > tangent appropriate for business? How about SUSE? I am an old Novell > guy... I still have the free 9x promotion package. I'd suggest you focus on RedHat (via Fedora). I believe they have the largest installed base. You can download it for free so the update and/or upgrades are free. Also, you don't need to upgrade the distro each time there's a change. I use SuSE and I always end up buying the X.1 version (usually just before the X.2 release :-P ) > 2) How about a good program for content filtering- more granular screening > on porn, violence, etc for high school students > > ron -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Eric Lucas ======================================================================== Libertarianism: The Ultimate Emancipation Proclamation -- Ray Masters ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug