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

[Waqas Toor]

Hi Khawar,
its a great job that you are doing here ... giving the students the
alternates to select from ... and believe me .. linux is the best ever
solution there ever will be for a student to learn computing ....
there are alternates that we have to just find and learn .... the
market in Pakistan is a fan of .NET and as i am also a .net developer
... but in return i feel guilty that i am stealing every thing ... but
now i have linux and my alternates about coding and stuff and i am
enjoying it a lot
now its upto the teachers like you to decide which is best for your
students ... as when i was a student .. i missed those flames that our
teachers missed to through at us ... and what we missed is
understanding and guidance ...
so Hats off for you ... lets stop software piracy and adopt Open
Source and make our name in it and guess what pakistan is on top of
web development all over the world ... yes above india ... dont
believe me ... just check google trends for this :)

On 12/5/06, Khawar Nehal <atrc.support at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Khawar Nehal
>
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-- 
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/