The license should not be a problem. Her board of education will install
licensed software onto her computer. They have an agreement with Microsoft.
She has a fully licensed copy of Office and there should be no problem with
an organisation that big finding a Windows license. Much as I hate to say
it, it is one of the benefits of being in administration. They get all the
perks.
Right now I am only running Arch in a VM but I just cleaned out three 200 GB
partitions and I will look for a place to install Arch and then I will look
into packer. How does it differ from pacman?
Roy
Using Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, 64-bit
Location: Canada
On 15 October 2010 16:46, Scott <scot...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 04:07:27PM -0400, Roy wrote:
> > Arch is a great distro if you have the time to set it up. The biggest
> > problem that I have with Arch is that AUR installed applications cannot
> be
> > upgraded the way that ones from the main repository can. I hope that they
> > are working on that. I like things to work simply and Arch is simple with
> > that one exception.
>
> Have you tried packer. It almost does the same thing, though usually,
> (IIRC), it buils it rather than a straight install. Still, it does
> search the AUR repo.
>
> >
> > I wonder about a Mac for my wife. Windows is so NOT her but she uses it
> > because that is what they use at work. I have also wondered about
> installing
> > Linux with Windows running in a VM for the few Windows applications that
> she
> > uses and needs (First Class, MSOffice and Corel Word Perfect are the big
> > three). She is in education. She is very busy and has little time or
> > patience to spend learning something new which is where Macs shine.
>
> The Mac is good if you can afford it. The Windows VM--one issue you
> *might* (or might not) find is that the version that came with the
> computer doesn't have a legit serial number, as it will be an OEM, only
> for that hardware, as opposed to the VBox virtual hardware.
>
>
> >
> > My daughter bought a Macbook pro and loves it. She did not get my geeky
> > genes. My oldest son has them in spades. He is a programmer and runs Arch
> > which brings me full circle. :)
>
> I prefer Mac to Windows for family members for one reason--less support
> issues.
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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>
> Spike: A slayer with family and friends. That sure as hell wasn't
> in the brochure.
>
>
>
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