[Opensource] Using Ubuntu in School

[Cameron Bell]

No complaints about speed. However when I run XP in Virtualbox I don't 
bother doing anything else - 1Gb Ram *just* keeps things ticking over.
I am just happy that it works at all as Markbook was the only essential 
app that I needed to use that had required keeping a dual boot.
I suspect that you need to have Netspace as your ISP for the mirror not 
to count towards downloads? We are with Brightsparks.

Cameron

victor rajewski wrote:
> On 9/4/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>   
>> Bravo Adam! Great work!
>> Having this will certainly reduce the amount of investigation and
>> playing required when getting Ubuntu up and running in schools.
>> I reckon the other thing that I had to keep looking up often after each
>> re-install was the config of the apt.conf file so that it would update
>> through the school proxy server.
>> Acquire::http::proxy "http://username:password@proxyIP:port";
>> seems to work for me. There were some very convoluted conf files out
>> there, but this simple one works.
>>     
>
> I've been setting this in general gnome settings
> (system->preferences->network proxy) for use by synaptic, and for the
> command line I use the environment variable (export
> http_proxy=http://proxy.address:8080).
>
> Incidentally, netspace has an ubuntu mirror on its ftp service
> (ftp.netspace.net.au) which makes downloads and updates super-fast and
> doesn't add to your download bill. A typical line in
> /etc/apt/sources.list is:
> deb http://ftp.netspace.net.au/pub/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
>
>   
>> My issues at the moment:
>> 1) Getting the edupass to connect automatically. At the moment I have to
>> manually select edupass from the nm applet to bring up the keychain.
>>     
>
> I used to have this problem, but it has (mostly) gone away. I've had
> another problem with wifi not coming up after sleeping, but I've
> posted a workaround to the wiki until the known bug gets fixed
> (hopefully in gusty)
>
>   
>> 3) Data projectors! AUUGHHHH.  Can't get videos to appear on the data
>> projector although I could in the past. I have one data projector that
>> is identical to all the others that won't accept the screen resolution
>> of the laptop - it only runs at 800x600 when all the others are quite
>> happy at 1024x768. Makes me think it's the DP but I can't find any
>> setting that might change it.
>>     
>
> This is one showstopper for linux at the moment. I'll be a lot happier
> when a nice graphical solution to multiple displays on arbitrary video
> cards is available.
>
>   
>> On the plus side, Markbook works wonderfully in a Innotek Virtual Box.
>>     
>
> How is performance in innotek compared with vmware? I find vmware kinda slow.
>
> vik
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