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Re: [PLUG] OT: Linux Business Forum
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The problem with setting up old machines with linux is they dont have enough
horse power to run any of the GUI's. You can forget about any 32 bit
applications so you left with teaching Shell scripts and OS commands.
Compile times on it are also painfull if you want to teach c. I just put
together a old 386, upgraded the ram to 8 megs(cost $4), 4X cd-rom($10),
SB16 ($4), new CMOS batter ($3). For a little over $20 I gave new life to a
free machine. I still can't even play a MP3's on it which was my original
intent.
Your point is a good one what you learn in school is hard to break away from
later in life. My curious side opened me up to Linux when I saw a Redhat 3.0
book that had a free cd inside. So I bought it and began my anti-M$ journey.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Schwier" <schwepes@netaxs.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] OT: Linux Business Forum
> The problem is simply the time to go through learning Unix. Most of the
> students are innately familiar with Windows from high school and home.
> That's part of the reason I wanted to create the Linux boxes from old give
> away computers. Some familiarity in high school with Unix or Linux would
> make the transition easier. I have to explain to them that the direction
> of the slashes in web site addresses reveals the use of Unix. They only
> see Windows and are not even aware of any issues involved.
> bs
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Paul wrote:
>
> > Ironic. A while back I was listening to a group of professors
> > discussing whether they should run CAD software under Unix or Windows.
> > They used to run it under Unix. They said that for student who will be
> > shopping a national job market the Unix-based CAD would be better. For
> > students shopping the local market the Windows version would be better.
> > I don't know if they were crazy or not. 8^) (This was back when I was
> > still using MS DOS Shell, graphical interface to DOS.)
> >
> > >I use Windows at work only cause Autodesk wont release software on
Linux.
> > >Big companies don't want to spend the extra money to support different
OS's.
> > >A program like Autocad 2002 which is 12+ years in the making, would
make a
> > >Open source type cad system very hard to move to.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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