Initial experiences with edubuntu

[Oliver Grawert]

Am Mittwoch, den 01.03.2006, 08:40 -0600 schrieb Gary Cziko:
> Dear Edubuntu Community:
> 
> I am a Linux newbie and just starting playing with edubuntu a few days
> ago.
> 
> I must say that I am quite impressed by edubuntu, the programs it
> contains, its ease of use and the ease of adding programs using Add
> Programs or Synaptic. I am trying to get faculty and students of my
> College of Education at the Univesity of Illinois knowledgeable about
> Edubuntu and we now have a rolling cart with eight laptops with WiFi
> set up with Edubuntu for demo purposes. 
WOW, thats great :)

> I can see myself eventually migrating from Windows XP and Mac OS X to
> Linux. And I  can certainly appreciate the potential of edubuntu for
> education. But there are still some issues I need to work out.  They
> deal mostly with multimedia, such as being able to to view Windows
> Media Player and RealPlayer audio and video as Firefox plug-ins and
> being to hear and view MP3 and DVD videos. 
> 
> For some reason, the Totem Player refuses to play anything (MP3s or
> DVDs) and I cannot get RealPlayer to run either after having installed
> it. I also installed VLC media player, and I can't get that to play
> DVDs either. 
> 
> So if anyone has recommendations about how the easiest way to give
> edubuntu the most multimedia capability, I would appreciate hearing
> about it.
please see:
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/RestrictedFormats


> A final question is using a laptop with WiFi.  It was easy to use the
> Network tool to get edubuntu to connect with my home WiFi system.  But
> that's because I knew the name (SSID?) of the network.  But what about
> free public access WiFi hotspots? Can edubuntu sniff these out so I
> can connect when I don't know what networks may be available. 
there are several tools in the universe section available, synaptic
should help if you search for "wlan scan" or something along that lines.

ciao
	oli
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