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Working principles
Résumé
The CD-ROM Freeduc-CD is based on the infrastructure Knoppix, it works without any write operation on the hard disk of your computer. It provides some fourty educational applications.
When the 1700 students of lycée Jan Bart were given each one Freeduc-CD, they came as groups of approximately thirty persons in a room equiped with heighteen computers. During one quarter of an hours, they were shown the how-to: « Switch your computers on, put quickly the CD-ROM in the tray, wait three minutes. ». Five minutes later, they knew how to use the graphical interface. Of course, one quarter of an hour is not enough to exhaust the possibilities of this CD-ROM.
The fact taht there are no write operations on the hard disk allow to guarantee to the parents that Freeduc-CD cannot be responsible for a breakdown of their computer. The feature of unimparability of the data on the CD-ROM guarantees that the educational environment will be exactly the same at each bootup. The free license of this CD-ROM guarantees its sustainability: students can copy it lawfully if they scratch it or if they lose it.