Re: [BLUG] [OT] Software for Ivy Tech students

It's a 2.0GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM. I got it off of FreeCycle with a
totally trashed OS and no install media, of course. I was hoping to put
a more legit version of XP on it, rather than the IU volume licensed OS
that we all know is available.

My understanding is that she is going into the medical technology
(transcription, coding, etc.) program. I can only assume she'll be
working in a Win environment. In these types of situations, what I like
to do is offer a dual boot Lin/Win setup, and encourage the user to
spend as much time as possible in the Lin environment.

My personal playtoy laptop is a Dell C600 700MHz/512MB/20G machine, that
has a "just in case" load of XP (never has been needed), a default of
MEPIS 8, and a partition that I use to install and play around with new
stuff. That last currently has a load of Karmic. Yes, it runs well, but
it doesn't have the "snap" that the MEPIS install does.

Mark Krenz wrote:
> If its not going to have enough horsepower to run a VM on top of the
> OS, then its probably not enough to run Vista or Win7 then. Right?
>
> I recently install Ubuntu on an old Dell 600 series laptop and was
> rather surprised by how fast it was and all the stuff I could run
> normally. It may seem risky to try to get them to try using a different
> OS, but we took that risk in the 90s a lot and got through it. 10 years
> later its much safer to do and you're much more likely to be successful
> in converting a user.
>
> I think one thing that the Linux advocates forgot to do is to teach a
> new generation of Linux advocates how to promote Linux. An OS can't
> promote itself, it needs users to do that.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 02:34:22PM GMT, Mark Warner [markwarner1954@att.net] said the following:
>> Of course. Except for the facts that
>>
>> 1) the machine I'm cobbling together isn't going to have much
>> horsepower, at least not enough to run a VM with decent performance
>>
>> 2) you still need an OS and software for the VM. We all know the IU
>> stuff is easily obtained, but I was hoping to be more legit.
>>
>>
>> Mark Krenz wrote:
>>> As if it has to be said.
>>>
>>> Sounds like a great opportunity to spring Ubuntu and Wine or
>>> Virtualbox on them.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:55:16PM GMT, Mark Warner [markwarner1954@att.net] said the following:
>>>> I have been asked to rebuild a computer for a new Ivy Tech student, and
>>>> was wondering if they have access to Microsoft operating systems and
>>>> software similar to the arrangement that IU students, faculty, and staff
>>>> enjoy. The student didn't know herself.
>>
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