[nzlug] Knoppix Experiment

[Michael Adams]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:23:52 +1200
Michael Adams wrote:

> Tried a little experiment today and thought you'd all be interested.
> 
> I have weaned work windows machines onto OO.o, Firefox, GIMP, and
> Seamonkey for the staff who use email (clients use myway.com for
> email). We have 5 boxes in a room for client use. I booted all 5 up
> into Knoppix this morning to see how the clients fared.
> 
> The less adventurous found Firefox and OO.o straight away and just got
> on with thier normal stuff. The more adventurous went exploring, one
> ended up on KSudoku, one on Penguin Solitaire, and one on GIMP
> exploring the new fonts for script-fu Logos. Resounding success. Only
> real issues: 1. Several copies of Mozilla, or OO.o all starting at the
> same time due to slow CD starting.
> 2. No chance of getting the Network Minolta (Magicolor 2300DL) Laser
> Printer set up before hand so nothing could be printed from the
> mornings session.

Happy, happy happy, here it is under colour lasers;
http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html


> In summary; we could in the near future swap reasonably painlessly to
> linux if approval was given from on high and i can get a printer
> driver to work. I'd probably need a test bed machine for pre-rollout
> update approval but that would be my only additional expense.
> 
> -- 
> Michael
>  Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.
> 
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