Linux in U.S. Schools: Why the Resistance? (IT Management)
Posted Sep 6, 2008 19:26 UTC (Sat) by
dmaxwell (guest, #14010)
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Linux in U.S. Schools: Why the Resistance? (IT Management) by gdt
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Linux in U.S. Schools: Why the Resistance? (IT Management)
TuxPaint lacks the huge richness of KidPix's stamps.
Actually, I successfully replaced KidPix with TuxPaint. When we were still using KidPix, we had Macs running OS 8.6 and 9.2. KidPix was the biggest source of instability and said instability was frequent. I was overjoyed to kick that overpriced crap off my network. That may not be true of an OS X native KidPix but since everyone has had over three years to get used to TuxPaint there is no clamoring to switch back. What's more since TuxPaint is Good Enough, the administration wouldn't pay for it anyway.
Apart from the reliability, TuxPaint got high marks for what you see as a flaw. Teachers thought the excess of stamps and precooked backgrounds made drawing pictures too effortless. Kids were just rearranging provided content rather than creating their own.
These days, TuxPaint is starting to accumulate more stamps and backgrounds. I wouldn't be surprised if I were asked to cut those down at some point.
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