[Year 12 Its] Re: [Yr7-10it] Linux v XP

[Zach Alexakos]

Hi Rob,

Depends if you're introducing students to the command-line interface 
or the windows x feature of linux/unix.

Zach Alexakos
Nth Geelong SC


At 12:49 PM 31/01/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Con,
>
>User level stuff. I'm really looking for materials that would suit a 
>student at about middle year level. Hopefully to allow them to make 
>informed judgements about how an general user might decide between 
>the two operating systems. These are not power users. If the 
>material is already in a form that is suitable for classroom 
>exercises, so much the better.
>
>Rob Attrill
>Mill Park Secondary College
>
>Con Zymaris wrote:
>
>>Are you after a 'user' level comparison, or a 'system 
>>administrator' level comparison?
>>The first one has questions like "how do you launch these applications and
>>copy data between them to create a live link to an online data source?"
>>and the other has questions like "how do you configure the web-server to
>>accept incoming requests only from the local intranet IP address range?"
>>
>>There are probably more comparisons of the latter than the former, 
>>as many IT professionals need to know both Windows and Linux from a 
>>system admin perspective.
>>
>>Have you googled for such comparison charts or documents?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Con Zymaris
>>
>>- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
>>- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
>>- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)
>>
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