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A first glance at this image (click on it to view it full size) might lead you to conclude that I’ve installed yet another operating system on the EeePC.

Look more closely though and you’ll see the Firefox bar along the top. What you are seeing is EyeOS – an operating system that runs inside [...]

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If you really need to run a bit of windows software, then sometimes a nifty project called WINE can come to the rescue.  WINE allows Windows software to run on a Linux operating system.  It doesn’t always work, and obviously space is limited on the Eee PC’s memory, but it can be done.  Here’s a [...]

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I’ve been using Linux since 2002, and am absolutely convinced of the enormous potential of Linux and open source software to provide high quality, low cost, easily maintained solutions for education. But when I talk to people, I often find that they have very little knowledge about Linux, beyond the fact that it’s free! [...]

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My feeling is that the Eee PC needs a touch screen to be the perfect 1-1 device. The chat online is that this is coming soon, for very little extra money, so I’ve been exploring how we migh use it, with the help of my wee Volito graphics tablet.
I installed the excellent open source [...]

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I’ve been adding some useful maths programs to the Eee PC, and adding icons for them to the Maths/ Learn tab.
The scientific calculator is jscicalc, which works exactly like the calculators that pupils use. Maxima and Geogebra should be familiar to you from previous posts of mine.

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