Linux for students laptop - Ubuntu or OpenSUSE
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Ewards
May 22, 2009, 10:25:05 PM5/22/09
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Dear all,
With regards,
Ewards
As you might be aware Karunya University is providing Lenovo Thinkpad SL400 laptops for the incoming first year students. We are planning to install Linux along with Windows. Which one would you prefer Ubuntu or OpenSUSE? Suggestions are also welcome for the applications to be installed in it. Please give your ideas in promoting opensource to the students. Thank you.
With regards,
Ewards
Swen George
May 22, 2009, 11:29:49 PM5/22/09
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If you are looking are looking for user friendliness I would suggest Ubuntu. Otherwise OpenSuse would be better as a development platform.
Also before deciding which OS to install, test run each OS on one Laptop. See whether all hardware is supported and it not how to get it to work.
To get people to stick to Linux after getting it its best if the Laptop has video, audio, network all working. (I think Ubuntu would work out of the box but it's best to verify.) Another thing whichever distribution you choose, it should have OpenOffice 3.0 installed fr better compatibility with existing docs from Office 2007.
Swen George
Also before deciding which OS to install, test run each OS on one Laptop. See whether all hardware is supported and it not how to get it to work.
To get people to stick to Linux after getting it its best if the Laptop has video, audio, network all working. (I think Ubuntu would work out of the box but it's best to verify.) Another thing whichever distribution you choose, it should have OpenOffice 3.0 installed fr better compatibility with existing docs from Office 2007.
Swen George
Shakthi Kannan
May 23, 2009, 1:27:34 AM5/23/09
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Hi,
--- On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Ewards <ewa...@gmail.com> wrote:
| As you might be aware Karunya University is providing Lenovo Thinkpad SL400
| laptops for the incoming first year students.
\--
After you have installed a distribution, I suggest that students post
blog entries, screenshots, pictures of the same along with their
configuration files so it is useful for others.
SK
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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
kish
May 23, 2009, 4:25:18 AM5/23/09
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On 5/23/09, Ewards <ewa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Suggestions are also welcome for the applications to be installed in it.
gcc, kdevelop/eclipse, wine, devhelp, quanta
kalzium, kmplot, qcad,
qucs, electric
jokosher
k3b
metasploit
> Please give your ideas in promoting opensource to the students.
Introduce a paper on open source studies in the first year.
Cheers
--Kish
Esse quam videri
krisk.wordpress.com
Johnny Jacob
May 23, 2009, 7:07:34 AM5/23/09
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Awesome initiative!
Exactly ! . Since I work for SUSE I would have a biased opinion on which distribution to use ;-)
I heard that Karunya deployed groupwise server. So you would probably want to look for the distro which would let you run a GW Client. And if Karunya is a Novell shop that would also be a major deciding factor . (Apologies , if I'm wrong here)
Later ..
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Johnny [johnnyjacob.wordpress.com | johnnyjacob.org]
"May you share freely, never taking more than you give "
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Swen George <sweng...@gmail.com> wrote:
If you are looking are looking for user friendliness I would suggest Ubuntu. Otherwise OpenSuse would be better as a development platform.
Also before deciding which OS to install, test run each OS on one Laptop. See whether all hardware is supported and it not how to get it to work.
To get people to stick to Linux after getting it its best if the Laptop has video, audio, network all working. (I think Ubuntu would work out of the box but it's best to verify.) Another thing whichever distribution you choose, it should have OpenOffice 3.0 installed fr better compatibility with existing docs from Office 2007.
Exactly ! . Since I work for SUSE I would have a biased opinion on which distribution to use ;-)
I heard that Karunya deployed groupwise server. So you would probably want to look for the distro which would let you run a GW Client. And if Karunya is a Novell shop that would also be a major deciding factor . (Apologies , if I'm wrong here)
Later ..
Johnny [johnnyjacob.wordpress.com | johnnyjacob.org]
"May you share freely, never taking more than you give "
paul shaiju
Jun 2, 2009, 8:58:25 AM6/2/09
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I would suggest u to install ubuntu (the latest version 9.0).itz superb n fast in loading...
if u would hav informed us , we would hav build our own ubuntu version (karunya version with essential codecs n soft)...
anyway we shuld develop our own customized linux ...
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manaankit
Jun 3, 2009, 4:51:28 AM6/3/09
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Hi sir,
I would prefer to have ubuntu or debian flavour OS on the system for
the new bie.. Its cause of the look , feel , support from community
and more over we can't say that Ubuntu is not good for development
purpose. We can provide them with the Development environments pre
installed so that at least they will know what is there in that.
Provide them with the alternative softwares for every Software they
will be using during academic tenure and few multimedia softwares
along with the Wine which i believe they may need.
Thanking you
Ankit
Long Live Open Source.
I would prefer to have ubuntu or debian flavour OS on the system for
the new bie.. Its cause of the look , feel , support from community
and more over we can't say that Ubuntu is not good for development
purpose. We can provide them with the Development environments pre
installed so that at least they will know what is there in that.
Provide them with the alternative softwares for every Software they
will be using during academic tenure and few multimedia softwares
along with the Wine which i believe they may need.
Thanking you
Ankit
Long Live Open Source.
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