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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 02:33:44PM +0000, Shaun Orchard wrote: > On 23 March 2010 10:32, Rod Sheaff <rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And at least one person who has installed kubuntu on his UoP machine (and > > rarely needs to use Windows at all) ... > > > > Has anyone else tried at UoP tried that? > > I am not sure what you mean by "tried that", but connecting to their > wireless network (which is Eduroam-based) and accessing the internet > is no problem at all (they even provide instructions to configure > wpa_supplicant for Linux). The portal and Outlook Web Access can both > throw a wobbler if you dare use a non-IE browser sometimes, but it is > largely okay. > > As for "the UoP is addicted to Windows", part of the Smeaton Building > (which is not on their main network) can at least dual boot (ancient > SuSE in one of the rooms, Ubuntu in the other that I know of). There were also a number of labs in the Babbage building that dual-booted Fedora, though I haven't checked to see if it's still there or not. Was certainly the case a couple of years back. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || bma@xxxxxx || gpg: 0x166891C7 || http://bma.cx/
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