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I”ve been playing some more tonight with the eee pc. I installed maxima on it, which is a superb open source CAS. Here’s a screenshot:

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I’m writing this on an Asus Eee PC, which I’ve been given to trial by East Lothian Council.

My first impressions are very positive. As an experienced Linux user, I found the interface a bit annoying, but a quick google brought me to this howto which explains how to switch out of the easy mode and back to a more regular Linux desktop. Before the switch, it looks like this:

and now it looks like this:

I can see the appeal of the easy mode for younger pupils.

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