[Year 12 Its] Linux v XP

[Guy Flaherty]

You can also build a VM Ware install of linux that can be downloaded onto a
machine or added to an image. All you need is the free VM Player installed
and then you can run Linux from inside of windows! It is a little slow at
times, depends mostly on the amount of system RAM. If you just want to let
students have a look at linux in a non-threating way, this is really good.
If they mess up in any way you just delete the one VM disk file and then
copy it back onto the machine. This way you can have a full install running
without any hardware problems or worrying about reinstalling or
losing/forgetting disks. We are using it on the lab computers and on the
student laptops. Works well with SuSE 10 and KDE.

Cheers,
Guy Flaherty
g.flaherty at xavier.vic.edu.au

gordonp at horsham-college.vic.edu.au wrote:

> 
> 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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