[Year 12 IT Apps] Cross platform operating systems

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Well done Anton, it is a bit of an eye opener for our students when you do
this. We had some fun getting BEOS, Ubuntu, Windows 1.0 and Windows98 up and
running with VMWare.

I was suprised how it engaged some of the year 11 girls who enjoyed showing
off how much quicker they could navigate and do things compared to the
gaggle of sad, lost lads who struggled once they were away from their more
familiar home computer setup. A boy noted that they only permit their
sisters to have a 'guest' account because of the supposed 'damage' that
might be done. They ate humble pie. :-)

Regards Roland

On 20/06/07, Anton Yoxon <yox at sosc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hey I just thought I would let the list know that we at South Oakleigh
> secondary college have managed to set up and run Apple, windows and linux
> Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian operating systems on each of our machines in one
> of our IT rooms.  Five operating systems running at the same time on one
> machine   The best of all worlds and lots of free software.
>
> Regards
> Anton
>
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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