[Moodle] Ubuntu, Moodle etc..Kent.

[Michael Greenhill]

Vik,

I was operating under the assumption that Kent's hand-me-down PCs were of
the 32bit (x86) variety, as I don't know many schools who are replacing
64bit PCs :)

Yes, you can get Gnome for the server edition in a snap, but to do so means
you've got one more thing to do post-install, and possibly one more point at
which to get horribly confused. And as others have already stated,
downloading costs quite a lot of money; to download Gnome takes 267 packages
(on one of my 7.04 servers), 66.3mb of downloads and 360mb of disk space
after unpacking.

Michael Greenhill
IT Technician
Wheelers Hill Secondary College

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-----Original Message-----
From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of victor rajewski
Sent: Monday, 11 February 2008 1:20 PM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Moodle] Ubuntu, Moodle etc..Kent.

On Feb 11, 2008 10:41 AM, Michael Greenhill <mi at whsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> When it comes time to chose which version to install, make sure you pick
the
> x86 Desktop version, otherwise you won't have a GUI, and the CPU won't be
> able to process any of the commands!

Huh? the edition depends on what hardware you have and what you want
to do with it. If you have 32 bit x86 hardware get the x86 version. If
you have 64bit x86 hardware (core 2 duo, recent amd CPUs) get the 64
bit version. The server version doesn't come with a gui by default,
but you can install it from the network in a jiffy. It also comes with
a LAMP option on install. And the server version is more likely to
install on hardware the desktop version doesn't like (there is also
the alternate install CD for this purpose).

vik
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