On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 01:07:19PM +0200, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > On 10/17/2018 03:18 PM, terryc wrote: > > > > Machines can > > > ping each other now, so besides introducing Devuan, I also want to > > > introduce Ubuntu via Devuan by some kind of remote GUI access or > > > like. Suggestions? Please note that there is no Internet access to > > > those boxes, so anything needed for each comp must be downloaded > > > elsewhere and brought on USB or CD. > > Burn the basic DVD and do the installation from it and if you have > > it on hand, you can show how easily the computer can acquire other > > applications by; > > 0) open a terminal > > b) aptitude search some application (or hint utility). > > c)sudo aptitude install chosen-utility. > > d) utility. > > It's a seniors club, 70-75 at average. Some of them are more-less fluent in > (pirated) Window$ -based mouse clicking to browse the Net, email, and > office. So my point is to show them that there are free & unrestricted > alternatives. As I said I have two machines there, one is wired to a big TV > so they who sit in a last row can listen & watch. That one machine is Devuan > Jessie 64-bit for now, I installed it just for test as I never used Devuan > distro before. However, I am more experienced in Ubuntu, so I want to show > them its desktop too. But the idea is not to disconnect/reconnect each > machine from the TV to switch different distro, instead I want to run Devuan > as a 'proxy' for Ubuntu to appear on TV as a second option.
Why not just dual-boot between Devuan and Ubuntu? Dual boot doen't *require* one of the systems to be nonLinux! -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
