[plug] Linux ideology (was: EduBDO/SIGfest)

[Denis Brown]

Leon Brooks and Chris Caston exchanged views on Linux, FOSS and various 
applications in the education field including a comment that we should be 
[showing] "the benefits to education that open source software has."

A couple of interesting applications in KDE's "Edutainment" offering are 
worth noting, I think.   The  Interactive Geometry programme yields 
fascinating insights into the relationship between geometrical concepts, 
such as the triangle inscribed in a semicircle is always right-angled 
(Circle of Thales).   The plantarium is equally fascinating, being able to 
view the night sky from any place on the Earth's surface.   Possibly 
best-of-the-breed for me though is the Kalzium periodic table programme -- 
if I'd had access to that in High School...

To make this more on-Linux-topic, the above, Kalzium especially, is 
available in KDE 3.1 and later.  Under Debian woody, only KDE 3.0 is 
seen.   Any probs in taking stuff from the testing/unstable trees (of 
Debian) and applying it to woody?   I guess what I'm asking is "if there 
are problems, how do I regress such a move?"   If the new stuff is 
versioned, there should not be any problem -- simply dpkg --purge the 
appropriate versioned debs.  Yes?  No?  Not that easy??

Cheers,
Denis