[Opensource] Getting rid of Windows on your R61 Lenovo

[Jim Maunder]

Morning All -

This old laptop technician wonders how the tech support people in your organisations cope with teachers buggarising\\\\\\\\\\ changing the software in your laptops? Do you expect them to support the new improved OS and software or do you look after it yourselves?

I have nothing against Ubuntu - I often play with it myself here at work. I find it easy to use, and really like the software installation and update procedure - makes this sort of thing a breeze. The wireless works well in our open network, though mapping drives on the Novell network is non-trivial. We could not use it on desktop machines here (although I keep trying the new releases just in case).

I run Vista on my desktop, and because a couple of apps I like to use don't run in Vista I have Win98 running in a MS Virtual Machine (and Win311 in another VM just to see if I could), so I understand why one would want to try that sort of approach.

Anyway I was wondering what the 'official line' was on non-standard desktop environments?

rgds
Jim
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Jim Maunder
Laptop Technician
Ruyton Girls School
Melbourne, Australia
ph 9290 9374



>>> Brett Groves<groves.brett.g at edumail.vic.gov.au> 12/10/2009 4:08 PM >>>
Greetings all,

Luckily I'm already bald or I would have torn out any hair left since I 
got my new R61 Lenovo a few months ago and have had to struggle with the 
joys of Vista. Blue screens, slow, "Windows has detected the cursor has 
moved, would you like to restart now" type messages.....I had had 
enough. So I set aside some time over the hols to look at Ubuntu.

Tried the alpha version of the new 9.10 release and it was lovely and 
very easy to configure but doesnt yet support virtualbox (more on that 
in moment).

I loaded as a final option instead version 9.04. I actually really 
didn't need to set aside much time at all. It was unbelievably easy to 
configure for EduPaSS wireless, the network share drives are 
ridiculously simple to map, in fact the whole process has been quite 
pain free...a revelation!

So now my laptop runs at least twice as fast, never blue screens hasn't 
crashed yet, and installing programs like Rolands suggestion of Kdenlive 
was trivially easy.

......

Brett Groves - ICT Coordinator - Croydon Secondary College

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