The irony of it all - download Ubuntu

[glennzo]

My daughter started college last week. Wentworth in Boston. She's taking IT related courses. She was given a new ThinkPad loaded with Windows 7. Throughout high ( technical ) school pretty much everything she was taught was Windows related.

One of the first assignments she ( and I presume the rest of her classmates ) was given was to download Ubuntu 12.04, which she did today.

She was also told to purchase books, one of them called Practical guide to Linux command editors and shell programming

[nonamedotc]

We (my boss and I) often wonder why the institution I am in right now is not switching to Linux in certain student computing labs and save money in times like the present! One of the reasons one often hears about is "lack of familiarity"!

This would go a long way in introducing people to linux. Whoever came up with this (that professor/instructor) should really be appreciated.

[secipolla]

Slightly related, I was looking at the OLPC project page yesterday and that's a really nice work being done through it. And it's Fedora based.

[Dan]

Well ... on the upside, they're smart enough to teach Linux. But on the down side ...

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[jpollard]

Works better than Fedora 17....

[hadrons123]

To be honest I downloaded gnombuntu yesterday. I really have to admit that alpha version is very very good. Little bit bloated than Fedora.But still ...

[Demz3]

Originally Posted by hadrons123

To be honest I downloaded gnombuntu yesterday. I really have to admit that alpha version is very very good. Little bit bloated than Fedora.But still ...

i see its a bit buggy. so i deleted my download before wasting another DvD

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2052509

[Wayne]

My son is studying engineering physics at a uni somewhere, he has to use windows on his laptop he takes to school but prefers Linux on his desktop machine when he comes home...

[hadrons123]

Originally Posted by Demz3

i see its a bit buggy. so i deleted my download before wasting another DvD

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2052509

I did a USB install using unetbootin. I don't use DVD or CD . There are very few bugs. Its usable. Already using it.

[glennzo]

I would have thought that if the school is teaching Linux networking that Redhat would be the way to go, but I suppose you can learn just as much using Ubuntu, and it's free. Hey, at least she has to get her hands dirty wth Linux.

For any Windows admins here, how often do you find yourselves working with Linux because you have to?

[Gareth Jones]

Ubuntu does seem a slightly odd choice. It's probably more familiar to the students (and more reliably stable out of the box maybe) than Fedora, but for a teaching institution I'd have thought CentOS or RHEL (depending on how DIY they want to be) would make more sense. Still, it's a big step in the right direction.

In the physics department at Warwick, there's a significant minority of Linux users in the experimental groups. The theoretical and computational groups are almost exclusively Linux. I don't know about other departments, but most science students at least seem to know what Linux is.

[nonamedotc]

Originally Posted by Gareth Jones

In the physics department at Warwick, there's a significant minority of Linux users in the experimental groups. The theoretical and computational groups are almost exclusively Linux. I don't know about other departments, but most science students at least seem to know what Linux is.

That's pretty nice. Unfortuntealy, most people I know here tend to rely on Windows and treat linux as something they have to put up with - rather reluctantly. I am talking about Masters and PhD students. Undergrads are even worse - with probably one exception. That guy was running Arch! Introducing linux to undergrads is amazing!

[RHamel]

I have Ubuntu 12.04 running on a 10 year old IBM thinkpad. It only has 512 M. I can't do that with Fedora. At least without jumping through some serious hoops.

[Fenrin]

Originally Posted by RHamel

I have Ubuntu 12.04 running on a 10 year old IBM thinkpad. It only has 512 M. I can't do that with Fedora. At least without jumping through some serious hoops.

yes new Fedora releases need pretty much RAM (at least its Gnome 3 and KDE 4 spins). My system has about 1.75 GB RAM (+256 MB RAM shared with IGP), and a 2 GB swap partition. A installed Fedora 17 consumes together with Gnome 3.4 about 600 MB RAM (without any visible applications open); an installed Calculate 12 (Gentoo based and compatible distro) with Gnome 3.4 needs only about 390 MB RAM.
But I stick with Fedora 17 for now, it's considerable more comfortable to use.

[deanej]

It's not Gnome and KDE that need more than 512 M; it's anaconda.