Re: Edubuntu 8.04 query

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:

Bret Busby wrote:
We just have to give up on Edubuntu, as unworkable.

Really, that's unfair. "Too much work", perhaps.

It is one thing to demonstrate a LiveCD or LiveDVD, for which we can
provide a confident assurance "This will not make any changes to your
computer", but, to have to say "We will install this operating system,
with which you are completely unfamiliar, and we will have to rearrange
your hard drive and make changes to computer, to show you this operating
system and its applications that you might find useful", is pushing luck
too far.

So install to a USB stick. It'll be faster than the CD and last week I saw
a 16GB USB stick for $15.

It's silly to demonstrate something on someone else's computer. Why
can't you take your own computer already pre-loaded with Linux? Do you
really want to show up not having a clue about what sort of hardware the
person whom you're trying to convince has, only to find out that it has
some weird NIC or video card that isn't well (or at all) supported by
whatever Linux distro you're promoting?

Good point. It's becoming more unusual to find such a case, but it still
happens.
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derek


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