Re: Install.* question

[Dave Torrey <tj@xxxxxxx>]

Another angle:

What are "required programs" vs. "required capabilities" ?

Word processing, spreadsheets, etc... have reasonable counterparts in
Linux.  I would expect that to suffice for the vast majority of
homework.

Non-commodity software is a different beast, but often there are Linux
versions available from the vendor (Matlab, Mathematica, etc...).

Dave


On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 11:28 -0400, Brandon Crowley wrote:
> Hmmm... that's a difficult question actually.  I guess I would try to run whatever program it is in wine or in a vm to show them whether or not it would work, assuming it is freely accessible through the school.  For all my jokes I wouldn't want them to actually make a bad switch and hate Linux for it.  So we could maybe try to have a machine up to just run class required programs to try to show which ones work and which don't?
> 
> Brandon Crowley
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phillip R. Merkey" <merk@xxxxxxx>
> To: "lug-l" <lug-l@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Phillip R. Merkey" <merk@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:24:16 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Install.* question
> 
> 
> I will have to miss the meetings for the next couple of weeks
> as I will be on travel,  but I will be tracking things on the Wiki :)
> 
> A possible topic for discussion:
> 
> I know the talks at the install-a-thing all indirectly address
> the following issue, but what would we say to directly
> address the statement:
> 
> I would run linux, but I have to use this machine to do my homework.
> Therefore, I can't.
> 
> Phil
>