[svlug] Bagels and 'Buntu7.10 - Saturday installfest

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi

On 10/18/07, Paul Reiber <reiber at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Gang -
>
> I'd love to see a few bootable CDs/DVDs of this latest release at this
> weekend's installfest.


I am going to need to be able to implement virtualization of Windows <choke>
for the public middle school that our community is supporting with FOSS.
The school has received a grant of $5,000.00 plus "$23,000.00 worth" of
Adobe Photoshop and video editing software <gag> that they need to use in
order to qualify for the money again next year.  Our choice (as a FOSS
community) is to let them just go ahead and install Windows natively and
blow away the existing Linux partitions; or to virtualize Windows so that at
least the teachers and students have the option of choosing and comparing
Cinelerra and Open Media Editor and Kino and Blender and Jahshakah versus
the prorprietary options.

IMHO, it is preferable to give them the choice of FOSS.  I know at least one
reasonable person who has said that we should just let them blow away
Windows and allow them to experience all the failure of Windows; but my
concern is that in so doing, we lose the actual physical boxes, which are
the best, fastest, and most powerful boxes in the whole school.  We actually
use those boxes for other things, such as teaching the children to compose
music via GNU Denemo.  So IMHO, virtualizing Windows is our only option.

At any rate, I would like to bring these two "shuttle" boxes down to the
Google installfest this Saturday.  I am totally unaware if there will be any
FOSS virtualization tools available for download this Saturday.  I am
assuming that there are good FOSS tools for both openSUSE 10.3 and Gutsy,
which are the two distros that we are using for these two boxes.  We must
have Gutsy on one of these boxes because there is a student assigned to this
box for music class; and we should probably have openSUSE on the other box,
because occasionally we have experienced issues with Edubuntu that do not
exist in openSUSE and vice versa.
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