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Slow downloads in Linux? IPv6 may be to blame

Internet Protocol Version 6 (or IPv6 for short) promises to solve the problem of dwindling IP address. Long story short, we're running out of the roughly 4 billion addresses available to us under the current scheme (IPv4), so it's time for an upgrade. IPv6, in addition to providing...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Quality products are to blame for Linux/Mac popularity

There have been a few posts on ZDNet in the last couple days relating to Vista rollouts and available alternatives. In particular, Marc Wagner wrote "Is Vista to blame for Mac, Linux popularity?". As he noted, In the end, the conscientious IT department will view the transition from...

Tags: Open Source, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Is Vista to blame for Mac, Linux popularity?

A silly question, I know, but I just read Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux? and I was dumbfounded.  Here's the premise:The cost of upgrading to Windows Vista is forcing more organizations to evaluate alternatives including Apple Macs and Linux for the desktop.According to the article, Capital & Regional CIO...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Any universities adopting Linux as their platform of choice?

The OpenSUSE Education Group has a question for you. Although I've talked a great deal about adoption of Linux in K-12 education, my expertise is not at the university level. As Marc Wagner has noted, the majority of universities still use Windows as their primary computing platform, regardless...

Tags: Open Source, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-16

Return of the command line

While I'm young enough to have largely grown up on graphical user interfaces, my recent interest in Linux has certainly shown me three things: You can't get away from the command line completely in Linux unless you are strictly a desktop end user The command line offers a level of power and...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-12

Dual-booting Windows and Linux, courtesy of AKH

I've had a few requests for instructions on dual-booting Windows and Linux and will hopefully put together some SUSE-specific instructions in the not-so-distant future. However, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wrote a great Ubuntu-specific post explaining how it's done. Windows Vista doesn't always do so well with the partitioner software built...

Tags: Education Technology, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-07-11

What if I get hit by a bus?

After reading Marc Wagner's post "Don’t be fooled, Linux is not free," I was struck by a few items. First and foremost, Marc is right. Linux is not a panacea. It doesn't take away the cost of doing business and it certainly requires a degree of expertise,...

Tags: Open Source, K-12, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-09

Don't be fooled, Linux is not free

I just finished reading Chris Dawson's most recent piece Linux definitely has a place in education and I couldn't agree more, until he said ..."If the choice is arbitrary, then would you rather pay hundreds of dollars or many thousands or millions at the enterprise level or would you rather...

Tags: Open Source, K-12, Higher Ed, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-08

Linux definitely has a place in education

But will the rest of the world follow?A few posters responding to my blog, SUSE vs. Ubuntu - first impressions, noted that they felt Linux was completely pointless in education. It wasn't so long ago that I shared their opinion. After all, 90% of the developed world uses...

Tags: Education Technology, Open Source, OpenSUSE and Ed Tech

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Is Linux right for your school?

My colleague, Chris Dawson, has written several excellent pieces recently about Linux mostly about the latest from the Ubuntu family of products but more recently about SuSE and he has made some excellent points.  The question one has to ask though in deciding whether Linux is right for your school is...

Tags: Education Technology, K-12

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Installing Linux - The joy of live CDs

Yesterday I went through various distributions and architectures for a Linux installation, focusing in particular on OpenSUSE. Before we go through the actual installation of OpenSUSE and Linux in general, there is one type of distribution that I failed to mention in yesterday's post: the Live CD.Live CDs are...

Tags: Training for the masses, OpenSUSE and Ed Tech, Open Source, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-26

OpenSUSE update (also, just what is a distribution?)

So this weekend wasn't quite as productive as I'd hoped in terms of my foray into testing and documentation for OpenSUSE. Between a wedding in New Hampshire and a shed that needed building (don't believe the salespeople - an afternoon project this is not, especially when your best helper...

Tags: Training for the masses, OpenSUSE and Ed Tech, Open Source, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Your mom Kubuntus!

Sorry, my students' steady stream of "your mom" jokes brings out my inner 14-year old. However, this is the first in my series this summer of training for the masses (see * for dummies) and the point is that your mom (or your grandmother, or your most typewriter-bound secretary)...

Tags: Training for the masses, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Macintosh...Help me understand why

I can feel them...the flames...they're coming. But I have to ask this question again (yes, I've asked one very much like it before) in light of recent events. The recent events, of course, involve the release of a particular Linux distribution with a funny African sort of name...

Tags: Apple, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-27

So when can we get our hands on Ubuntu Dells? And do we want to?

With quite a bit of fanfare in the geek community, Dell began selling desktops and laptops to consumers today preloaded with Ubuntu 7.04. The fanfare was not so obvious on the Dell homepage - if you didn't know to go directly to www.dell.com/linux, you were out of luck. ...

Tags: Education Technology, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Dell announces support plans for Linux machines

While the exact details concerning timing and availability of Dell's Ubuntu-based hardware offerings are still emerging, an entry yesterday on their Direct2Dell blog outlined plans for support of the new OS.  In particular, Dell will be launching a new wiki for users on their linux.dell.com website"that gives technical details of...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-21

Why do so many seem to hate Microsoft?

Chris Dawson's Why do I only get flamed when I support Microsoft? asks a really good question.  There are no simple answers to this question, which is truly multi-faceted but one thing is certain: a lot of the animosity directed toward Microsoft has nothing to do with Microsoft or their business practices. I think the lack...

Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Why do I only get flamed when I support Microsoft?

A recent post in Information Week asked a similar question: Why Doesn't Microsoft Have a Cult Religion? It appeared on Digg and Ars with an even catchier tagline: "A good question: Where ARE the Microsoft fanboys?" A whole lot of us use it, many even with a great...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-15

How cool is virtualization? If you said "Pretty cool," you're right!

I just finished installing Windows XP Pro on my laptop. Nothing to write home about, except that I just restarted it after an update while I continue to write this blog on the same computer. Yes, Ive just discovered the cool factor of virtualization. Im still running...

Tags: Education Technology, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-05-14

When faculty say 'NO' to UNIX/Linux

Well, sooner or later, it was bound to happen. We are in the process of retiring our last two instructional UNIX/Linux labs. And guess what? Nobody seems to care! In fact, the faculty who have been using those labs for instruction have asked us to give...

Tags: Open Source, K-12, Higher Ed, Education Technology, Classroom Tech

Blog posts 2007-05-08