Ubuntu-Pakistan How to Run Live CD on legacy Machines?

[Khawar Nehal]

Real story

I am teaching project management and people need MS Project because it is
the most popular.
I was thinking of teaching the PM students the open source Imendio which
came with my distro.
Today I tried to run Windows so I could prepare a project management class
on MS Project.
I had not booted the partition for months since it was installed.
Then a message popped up which said I need to "register" to use XP. (That's
new)
I had heard about this but thought people had a work around.
I said remind me later and it logged me off. This is something new for the
usual MS shareware which is supposed to behave like other softwares. Remind
me later should mean bug me later not log off.
Then I tried the CD key which came with the CD and that did not help to get
it started.
No people who try Linux complain sometimes of it being not so friendly.
If MS is preventing logins then I would like to see the reaction of people
to this.
Have the people come out with a cracked XP yet ?
So now the plan is to teach Imendio along with a new course titled "HELP!!!
My windows is not ACTIVATING."

In this course we teach how to live in the computing world with Open Source.

So the bad news is that I cannot teach prepare MS Project. This got me
thinking.
MS Software like IE and others do not work perfectly on Linux or Wine so if
MS intends to register XP then they shall also restrict MS products like MS
Project and others.

This shall force people to use Open source softwares like Imendio (which
they never bothered to learn about) because OSS works perfectly on Linux and
not so perfectly on Windows. In most cases OSS is available only for Linux.

This new situation is cool. The more Software is available for an OS the
better it is. With the "great" move of restricting XP has caused MS to
delegate their OS in the area of Suns and Irix and other PAID OSes like
BeOS.

The OS is now a commodity item and the world does not feel like paying for
it.

Regards,

Khawar Nehal


On 12/4/06, Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/4/06, Khawar Nehal <atrc.support at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That solves the problem.
> >
> > Get a P2 with at least 256 MB or RAM and at least an 8 GB harddisk.
> yup if you want to feel the ubuntu experience you should have these
> specs atleast
>
> > For anything less first solve the Rupee financing problem.
> nah ... you can try DamnSmall linux or College linux both come with
> live cds and xfce as their desktops :)
>
> > If you really need to run on 486s with 24 MB of RAM then use LTSP.
> hahaha LOL ... for a newbie LTSP is going to be hell as for me too
>
> --
> Waqas Toor
> member of Ubuntu Pakistani Team
> waqas at ubuntu-pk.org
> http://www.ubuntu-pk.org
>
> Linux *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
> In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and Gates ?
>
> http://waqastoor.weblog.pk
> (Registered Linux user #424056)
> ref link http://counter.li.org/
>



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