Windows Vista or Ubuntu Linux?

[Amir]

Vista because I'm a Micro$oft wh0re!!!!1!1

 

 

I voted vista too... because my friend likes linux too much so i have to do opposite

[Teth]

I've installed edgy and dapper from DVD without it forcing an internet connection. It asked if I wanted to check but I just said no because the machine was stand alone.

[Amir]

So you dont have to register it later on the internet?

[webman]

Register? What is this 'register' you speak of?

 

The only thing Ubuntu needs the internet for is (by default) getting updates via Apt (and, the hardware detection reporting tool thing - not sure if that's in Ubuntu any more though )

[Teth]

Extended repositories to get the "cool" packages that are rather grey in the legal department require the internet too. Things like DVD support, xvid, writeable NTFS are not on official repositories but people has published them to what they call Univers repositories and you can apt get them from there.

[CyberNerd]

Extended repositories to get the "cool" packages that are rather grey in the legal department require the internet too. Things like DVD support, xvid, writeable NTFS are not on official repositories but people has published them to what they call Univers repositories and you can apt get them from there.

 

Have a look at automatix http://www.getautomatix.com/ as a fast way of installing other proprietry bits

[Zoom7000]

I voted Vista, simply because I am a Windows expert, know very little about Linux and because the majority of working environments use Windows.

 

Having said that, I am an avid fan of Open Source and hope that someday Linux can become just as popular as Windows.

[linuxgirlie]

Eh, I voted Linux...really can't be bothered to put my point across as it's one of those things that will never get done, there will be no 100% Linux Users and there will not be 100% Windows users, so why argue whats the best?

 

I have used Linux for 6 years, and it works...enough said.

[ajbritton]

Especially for the naysayers. Here's a case study of a UK high school using a 100% Linux solution.

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/linux_case_study_orwell_high_school.html

 

Where's Orwell High School on the league tables I wonder?

 

I notice that this '100%' Linux solution includes a Windows 2003 Terminal Server...

[webman]

Due to the single-minded nature of some software creators it obviously wasn't possible.

 

Some proprietary teaching packages have no direct equivalent in the Open Source world at the moment and some of the teaching packs in use were based on Microsoft software so support for this legacy software was also important.

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Whilst between them those meet by far the greatest part of the needs of the students, there is inevitably also a need for access to software that will only run in a Microsoft environment. To provide access to those legacy applications, a server running Microsoft Terminal Server 2003 is used, with the students using a RDP client from the Linux desktop. The students' files are accessible in both environments. An example of a desktop accessing Visual Basic is shown below. Naturally Windows and Linux screens can be (and are) run simultaneously side-by-side on any of the workstations. The image shows a web browser window running under Linux overlaid with a terminal server session to Windows.