[Opensource] Using Ubuntu in Schools (with Novell)

Roland Gesthuizen rgesthuizen at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 12:46:39 EST 2007


No reason .. I have played with SUSE at school and Ubuntu at home. From
memory, City of Kingston was exploring SUSE to fit into their Novell network
to save money. I have noticed other public libraries have been exploring
Ubuntu.

Regards Roland

On 12/09/2007, Jim Maunder <techo at ruyton.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> At 09:29 AM 04/09/2007, Cameron Bell 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 mucked around with SUSE for a while
> >...
> >the great thing about linux is you can choose one that best suits your
> needs.
> >...
> >Adam Barbary wrote:
> >>I have been trying to put together a howto for using Ubuntu Linux in
> school.
>
>
> Just revisiting this thread (I've been trying Vista Business on a 2
> year old lappy and was going to dual-boot it with a linux) and I
> wondered why ppl on Novell sites would chose Ubuntu over SUSE, given
> that SUSE fits into Novell networking quite easily and is free to
> Novell licencees? I'm not trolling (well, maybe a little) - just
> after advice/opinion from ppl with more experience and expertise than
> this old hack.
>
> curious
> Jim
>
>
>
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