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Aloone_Jonez:
Not to mention that the electronics department will be pissed off with you becayse they can no longer run their circuit simulation software.

Jenda:
Just today, we ran a Ubuntu Live CD at school... (Canada, we ain't alowed anything other than a few MS pieces of crap)

We didn't manage to connect to the internet, though...
Does anybody know how to do that in such a situation? It's ethernet, and that's about all I know about it.

Aloone_Jonez:
Why don't you ask the IT department if you could install a UNIX os on one of the older machines?

Don't use Ubuntu its way too bloated to run on old hardware  go for Slackware, Gento, or a BSD if you want hardcore, go for Vector Linux if you're still a newb. You never know some of the IT staff may've even worked with UNIX before and might be able to either help you or do it for you.

Fucking around with live CDs is only going to piss them off and get you banned.

Jenda:
Basically, you're right. We didn't really want to run Linux at school, it was just that those guys, whom I have just introduced to it, were so amazed by the Live CD that they wanted to try whether it works or not - I myself was curious to see if we could go on-line.
I realise that a Live CD is NOT the way to go, if you want to USE :tux: for something worthwile.
Why would they mind, though? And then again, I don't really care - I'm graduating this year (and leaving the country...:))

I'm afraid there is no IT department. Just a teacher who is in charge of the computer room, and I'm have a suspicion that she knows fuck-all about computers, not to mention our dear :tux:...

Aloone_Jonez:
You could always bring a laptop in to school with Linux on and give her a demonstration.

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