[Year 12 Its] Linux v XP

[gordonp at horsham-college.vic.edu.au]

good idea jack - I used bootable CD's last year, which the kids found not too threatening - particularly for home use.

I used ubuntu   http://www.ubuntu.com/   Just go to their site and they will send you as many CD's as you want - no charge, no strings. The package consists of 1) a boot CD - slow, but a good way to see if linux works on your hardware;
and 2) a full install CD. The only problems i had with the full install were with display drivers for ATI cards on 1 machine.

gordon



"Jack Matthews" <jack_m_matthews at hotmail.com> on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:32:03 +1100 wrote:
> You could use a CD bootable version on linux for this puropse if you wanted.
> 
> Knopix and SUSE have these types of distributions, that way the kids can 
> wreck the OS as much as they want.  You can also mount your Home drive on a 
> USB stick which most of student will have these days.
> 
> -jack
> 
> 
> >From: Rob Attrill <attrill.robert.j at edumail.vic.gov.au>
> >Reply-To: "Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing 
> >List"<is at edulists.com.au>
> >To: Yr7-10it at edulists.com.au,        "Year 12 Information Technology 
> >Processing and ManagementTeachers'Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>,      
> >   "Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing 
> >List"<is at edulists.com.au>
> >Subject: [Year 12 Its] Linux v XP
> >Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:48:51 +1100
> >
> >Greetings to all,
> >
> >Apologies to those who for whom this is a cross posting, however, as I 
> >teach/have taught Systems, IPM and IT at year 10 I realised that the issue 
> >would have interested me regardless, so it might interest you as well.
> >
> >I am planning an install by Year 10 students of a dual boot (XP and Red 
> >Hat) to give them the experience and also to give them a means of 
> >comparison between the two O/S's. I was wondering if anyone has done any 
> >work or created any exercises comparing the two, or has any classroom type 
> >exercise material on Red Hat in particular.
> >
> >regards
> >
> >Rob Attrill
> >Mill Park Secondary College
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