[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
Dear Karthik, Please scroll down and read the original post under the thread head 50 Solaris school computers. The question is if there is a computer with Sun Solaris operating system, learning Star Office and java becomes easier. But the student also has to learn windows and Vbasic. How does he do that on a computer with Sun Solaris O/s ? Is Dual Boot with Windows as additional O/S the only way out ? Or can Zen help? These are to be standalones, low cost desktop computers, is Zen a good idea ? And with Zen can a student do his exercises on his Vbasic and Internet Explorer ? Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/12/07, Karthic Somalinga karthic.sr at gmail.com wrote: I suppose there is some misunderstanding about Solaris here. I wonder how somebody can learn Microsoft Windows on Solaris Machine (unless they understood Solaris as a hardware). - Karthic On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Hello, The following syllabus information is received from the school: XI Std. June July An Introduction to Computers Volume 1 Number Systems An Introduction to Windows Windows Explorer, computers, Communications August Internet September HTML - An Introduction to html - some more tags, Beyond the basics I II, Developing Webpages October Flow Charts Volume II Elements of C Language Simple C programs Control Structures November Loop Structures December Arrays and Structures Functions, Library Functions January Files Standard XII June Star Office Writer Text Formatting Spell Check Corrections Working With Tables July Page Formatting Spread Sheet Database August Mutlimedia Introduction Star Office Impress Object Oriented Concepts using C+ Overview of C+ September Basic Statements Functions October Structured Data types -Arrays Classes and Objects Polymorphisms November Constuctors and Destructors Inherittance Impact of Computers on Society December IT enabled Services Comptuer Ethics This is for Standards XI and XII. From next academic year onwards, Std VI onwards will have subjects like Visual Basic, Java and additional subjects. At a later stage Open Solaris can work with the authorities to rationalize the syllabus and suggest an improved syllabus, but for now, how do I say that Solaris is better for this syllabus ? How would students learn Microsoft Windows on a Solaris machine ? Thank you Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Shivakumar, Moinack and Sriram, you have given me a wealth of information. This morning I prepared a pdf on Solaris features which summarises the overall features, now I will convince him with the inputs that you have given. Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com wrote: Sriram Popuri wrote: 1) Is system administation more difficult or more complicated in Solaris ? What he probably wants to know is whether solaris has GUI interfaces on the desktop for at least the common system adminstrative tasks. You can use Solaris Management Console. type smc (/usr/sbin/smc) in a terminal or click from the menu. This will bringup a window through which you can manage many things. [...] Storage services: Um ... it is recommended to use Storage Services for viewing only. There are a few bugs here that can cause unintended disk formatting! In addition JDS (GNOME) from Solaris Express Build 54 onwards has additional nice GUIs for managing Users and Groups, Configure Network without rebooting etc. Just go to Main Menu - Administration and Main Menu - Preferences. Regards, Moinak. ___ ug-bosug mailing list List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 ___ ug-bosug mailing list List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 -- A good question never has a good answer ___ ug-bosug mailing list List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:
[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
Dear Karthik, Sorry, the original message that I posted under the thread 50 Open Solaris School Computers does not form part of this message. This message contains the last two messages of that message thread with the new thread headline Challenge: Teaching In brief, the original message was about offering a learning solution to a school that wants to buy computers for its students who have to learn Vbasic, Microsoft Windows, Star Office, C+ and Java. The school wanted to go in for a Windows computer, I am trying to convince them to opt for Solaris. The Solaris computers are to be given to the school if a solution for handling the Microsoft part of Syllabus can be offered. Dual Boot or VMware ? Which one is most suitable ? Which one is less expensive ? Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Karthik, Please scroll down and read the original post under the thread head 50 Solaris school computers. The question is if there is a computer with Sun Solaris operating system, learning Star Office and java becomes easier. But the student also has to learn windows and Vbasic. How does he do that on a computer with Sun Solaris O/s ? Is Dual Boot with Windows as additional O/S the only way out ? Or can Zen help? These are to be standalones, low cost desktop computers, is Zen a good idea ? And with Zen can a student do his exercises on his Vbasic and Internet Explorer ? Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/12/07, Karthic Somalinga karthic.sr at gmail.com wrote: I suppose there is some misunderstanding about Solaris here. I wonder how somebody can learn Microsoft Windows on Solaris Machine (unless they understood Solaris as a hardware). - Karthic On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Hello, The following syllabus information is received from the school: XI Std. June July An Introduction to Computers Volume 1 Number Systems An Introduction to Windows Windows Explorer, computers, Communications August Internet September HTML - An Introduction to html - some more tags, Beyond the basics I II, Developing Webpages October Flow Charts Volume II Elements of C Language Simple C programs Control Structures November Loop Structures December Arrays and Structures Functions, Library Functions January Files Standard XII June Star Office Writer Text Formatting Spell Check Corrections Working With Tables July Page Formatting Spread Sheet Database August Mutlimedia Introduction Star Office Impress Object Oriented Concepts using C+ Overview of C+ September Basic Statements Functions October Structured Data types -Arrays Classes and Objects Polymorphisms November Constuctors and Destructors Inherittance Impact of Computers on Society December IT enabled Services Comptuer Ethics This is for Standards XI and XII. From next academic year onwards, Std VI onwards will have subjects like Visual Basic, Java and additional subjects. At a later stage Open Solaris can work with the authorities to rationalize the syllabus and suggest an improved syllabus, but for now, how do I say that Solaris is better for this syllabus ? How would students learn Microsoft Windows on a Solaris machine ? Thank you Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Shivakumar, Moinack and Sriram, you have given me a wealth of information. This morning I prepared a pdf on Solaris features which summarises the overall features, now I will convince him with the inputs that you have given. Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com wrote: Sriram Popuri wrote: 1) Is system administation more difficult or more complicated in Solaris ? What he probably wants to know is whether solaris has GUI interfaces on the desktop for at least the common system adminstrative tasks. You can use Solaris Management Console. type smc (/usr/sbin/smc) in a terminal or click from the menu. This will bringup a window through which you can manage many things. [...] Storage services: Um ... it is recommended to use Storage Services for viewing only. There are a few bugs here that can cause unintended disk formatting! In addition JDS (GNOME) from Solaris Express Build 54 onwards has additional nice GUIs for managing Users and Groups, Configure Network without rebooting etc. Just go to Main
[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
Hi! On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 23:59 +0530, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: Dear Karthik, snip Dual Boot or VMware ? Which one is most suitable ? Which one is less expensive ? Um, both are equally expensive actually. Dual boot or VMware, you still have to pay for your copy of Windows. And yeah, VMware is free (free as in free beer). Depending on your system configuration ( 512 megs of RAM, 20 gig free space) VMware might actually be a good solution, with the suspend and resume stuff too. Regards, Srichand -- Srichand Pendyala MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology Phone: +91 988 615 2042 URL: http://srichand.net.in Mukthi 7.04 - A premier student focused free and open source event! 11th and 12th April, MSRIT http://mukthi.vrlinug.org/ -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20070413/35b2092c/attachment.bin
[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
Hello What kind payments to be made to Microsoft if Vista is to be run on VMware in a desktop? Thank you. On 4/13/07, Srichand Pendyala srichand.pendyala at gmail.com wrote: Hi! On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 23:59 +0530, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: Dear Karthik, snip Dual Boot or VMware ? Which one is most suitable ? Which one is less expensive ? Um, both are equally expensive actually. Dual boot or VMware, you still have to pay for your copy of Windows. And yeah, VMware is free (free as in free beer). Depending on your system configuration ( 512 megs of RAM, 20 gig free space) VMware might actually be a good solution, with the suspend and resume stuff too. Regards, Srichand -- Srichand Pendyala MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology Phone: +91 988 615 2042 URL: http://srichand.net.in Mukthi 7.04 - A premier student focused free and open source event! 11th and 12th April, MSRIT http://mukthi.vrlinug.org/ ___ ug-bosug mailing list List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20070413/93649cb0/attachment.html
[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:47:57AM +0530, Ananth Shrinivas wrote: What kind payments to be made to Microsoft if Vista is to be run on VMware in a desktop? You need a standard MS license for the OS you wish to run. If its a school, you need to buy one license for every single computer you wish to run the OS on. I believe there is a 'bulk discount' or some such thing. Might be a little more complex than that. It is not legal to run all versions of Vista inside VMWare. You might need to go for the business editions of Vista which are significantly more expensive. http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,61969665,00.htm http://www.vmware.com/solutions/whitepapers/msoft_licensing_wp.html There are some new licenses available which would allow Vista Enterprise Edition to be run on a virtualized server-based setup, but this would probably still turn out to be expensive. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/03/windows_vista_virtualization/ Any reason why it has to Vista and not XP? As Ananth mentioned, this would make your hardware less expensive. Venky.
[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
On 4/13/07, G N S shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: No point over-engineering the solutions such as VMware if windows *has* to be taught. Multiple issues - technical/legal/administrative will need to be dealt with. Legal issue being the trickiest since these are always current and may change at any point of time. Indeed. I also think that the school would have to buy academic licenses for Visual Studio - MS would definitely start to pay visits if they hear of folks running VB on Wine at a school. And if they do find VB on Wine, they they'll change licensing requirements if required to ensure that Visual Studio products cannot be run on anything apart from Windows, etc. I was wondering if all that sounds far fetched, but with MS evangelizing very much and having lots of campus ambassadors etc, they're likely to do their best to keep anything non-Windows away. Just setup windows and teach windows. But do have it as dual boot to teach students non-windows topics. +1 to that. And if students don't choose to boot into Linux, then Cygwin on Windows would be an option too. The NCR FOSS folks would perhaps be of help here. -- Sriram
[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
Hi Siva, Considering the Syllabus you referred to Vista would be a bad option. You can do that very much with XP flavours even and Vista will add more complexity and will cost you high. As referred by Srichand, both ideas are equally expensive but prefer dual boot rather than VMWare (as it will require high system configuration). - Karthic On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Karthik, Sorry, the original message that I posted under the thread 50 Open Solaris School Computers does not form part of this message. This message contains the last two messages of that message thread with the new thread headline Challenge: Teaching In brief, the original message was about offering a learning solution to a school that wants to buy computers for its students who have to learn Vbasic, Microsoft Windows, Star Office, C+ and Java. The school wanted to go in for a Windows computer, I am trying to convince them to opt for Solaris. The Solaris computers are to be given to the school if a solution for handling the Microsoft part of Syllabus can be offered. Dual Boot or VMware ? Which one is most suitable ? Which one is less expensive ? Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Karthik, Please scroll down and read the original post under the thread head 50 Solaris school computers. The question is if there is a computer with Sun Solaris operating system, learning Star Office and java becomes easier. But the student also has to learn windows and Vbasic. How does he do that on a computer with Sun Solaris O/s ? Is Dual Boot with Windows as additional O/S the only way out ? Or can Zen help? These are to be standalones, low cost desktop computers, is Zen a good idea ? And with Zen can a student do his exercises on his Vbasic and Internet Explorer ? Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/12/07, Karthic Somalinga karthic.sr at gmail.com wrote: I suppose there is some misunderstanding about Solaris here. I wonder how somebody can learn Microsoft Windows on Solaris Machine (unless they understood Solaris as a hardware). - Karthic On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Hello, The following syllabus information is received from the school: XI Std. June July An Introduction to Computers Volume 1 Number Systems An Introduction to Windows Windows Explorer, computers, Communications August Internet September HTML - An Introduction to html - some more tags, Beyond the basics I II, Developing Webpages October Flow Charts Volume II Elements of C Language Simple C programs Control Structures November Loop Structures December Arrays and Structures Functions, Library Functions January Files Standard XII June Star Office Writer Text Formatting Spell Check Corrections Working With Tables July Page Formatting Spread Sheet Database August Mutlimedia Introduction Star Office Impress Object Oriented Concepts using C+ Overview of C+ September Basic Statements Functions October Structured Data types -Arrays Classes and Objects Polymorphisms November Constuctors and Destructors Inherittance Impact of Computers on Society December IT enabled Services Comptuer Ethics This is for Standards XI and XII. From next academic year onwards, Std VI onwards will have subjects like Visual Basic, Java and additional subjects. At a later stage Open Solaris can work with the authorities to rationalize the syllabus and suggest an improved syllabus, but for now, how do I say that Solaris is better for this syllabus ? How would students learn Microsoft Windows on a Solaris machine ? Thank you Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Shivakumar, Moinack and Sriram, you have given me a wealth of information. This morning I prepared a pdf on Solaris features which summarises the overall features, now I will convince him with the inputs that you have given. Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com wrote: Sriram Popuri wrote: 1) Is system administation more difficult or more complicated in Solaris ? What he probably wants to know is whether solaris has GUI interfaces on the desktop for at least the common system adminstrative tasks. You can use Solaris Management
[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
Hello Open Solaris, Thank you all for the flood of attentive responses on this question. The responses have in total given a shape to a solution that can be offered to the school: 1. A sun Solaris desktop with dual boot option ( based on Srichand Pendyala's observation that VMware is free, free as in free beer and the pointed advise from GNS that over-engineering solutions multiply technical / legal / administration. And as Venky pointed out it might not be entirely legal and it could be expensive to run Vista on VMware. 2. Since it is a machine with a basic configuration, Vista that doubles hardware budget is out, and as observed, there is no particular reason for Vista for this purpose. So Windows XP. 3. Sriram, how does Open Solaris work with NRC foss ? And with other open source groups ? Is there any interaction between Open Solaris and other Open Source groups ? Is Open Solaris a member or otherwise associated with the govenrment body NRC foss? I will propose a summary solution to this school as also get to work on some more schools, to see if we can come up with an opportunity to create a learning environment in a school or college based on desktop computers and supportive backend servers all of which primarily run Solaris / Open Solaris. Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/13/07, Karthic Somalinga karthic.sr at gmail.com wrote: Hi Siva, Considering the Syllabus you referred to Vista would be a bad option. You can do that very much with XP flavours even and Vista will add more complexity and will cost you high. As referred by Srichand, both ideas are equally expensive but prefer dual boot rather than VMWare (as it will require high system configuration). - Karthic On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Karthik, Sorry, the original message that I posted under the thread 50 Open Solaris School Computers does not form part of this message. This message contains the last two messages of that message thread with the new thread headline Challenge: Teaching In brief, the original message was about offering a learning solution to a school that wants to buy computers for its students who have to learn Vbasic, Microsoft Windows, Star Office, C+ and Java. The school wanted to go in for a Windows computer, I am trying to convince them to opt for Solaris. The Solaris computers are to be given to the school if a solution for handling the Microsoft part of Syllabus can be offered. Dual Boot or VMware ? Which one is most suitable ? Which one is less expensive ? Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Karthik, Please scroll down and read the original post under the thread head 50 Solaris school computers. The question is if there is a computer with Sun Solaris operating system, learning Star Office and java becomes easier. But the student also has to learn windows and Vbasic. How does he do that on a computer with Sun Solaris O/s ? Is Dual Boot with Windows as additional O/S the only way out ? Or can Zen help? These are to be standalones, low cost desktop computers, is Zen a good idea ? And with Zen can a student do his exercises on his Vbasic and Internet Explorer ? Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/12/07, Karthic Somalinga karthic.sr at gmail.com wrote: I suppose there is some misunderstanding about Solaris here. I wonder how somebody can learn Microsoft Windows on Solaris Machine (unless they understood Solaris as a hardware). - Karthic On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Hello, The following syllabus information is received from the school: XI Std. June July An Introduction to Computers Volume 1 Number Systems An Introduction to Windows Windows Explorer, computers, Communications August Internet September HTML - An Introduction to html - some more tags, Beyond the basics I II, Developing Webpages October Flow Charts Volume II Elements of C Language Simple C programs Control Structures November Loop Structures December Arrays and Structures Functions, Library Functions January Files Standard XII June Star Office Writer Text Formatting Spell Check Corrections Working With Tables July Page Formatting Spread Sheet Database August Mutlimedia Introduction Star Office Impress Object Oriented Concepts using C+ Overview of C+ September Basic Statements Functions October Structured Data types -Arrays Classes and Objects Polymorphisms November
[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
Hello, The following syllabus information is received from the school: XI Std. June July An Introduction to Computers Volume 1 Number Systems An Introduction to Windows Windows Explorer, computers, Communications August Internet September HTML - An Introduction to html - some more tags, Beyond the basics I II, Developing Webpages October Flow Charts Volume II Elements of C Language Simple C programs Control Structures November Loop Structures December Arrays and Structures Functions, Library Functions January Files Standard XII June Star Office Writer Text Formatting Spell Check Corrections Working With Tables July Page Formatting Spread Sheet Database August Mutlimedia Introduction Star Office Impress Object Oriented Concepts using C+ Overview of C+ September Basic Statements Functions October Structured Data types -Arrays Classes and Objects Polymorphisms November Constuctors and Destructors Inherittance Impact of Computers on Society December IT enabled Services Comptuer Ethics This is for Standards XI and XII. From next academic year onwards, Std VI onwards will have subjects like Visual Basic, Java and additional subjects. At a later stage Open Solaris can work with the authorities to rationalize the syllabus and suggest an improved syllabus, but for now, how do I say that Solaris is better for this syllabus ? How would students learn Microsoft Windows on a Solaris machine ? Thank you Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Shivakumar, Moinack and Sriram, you have given me a wealth of information. This morning I prepared a pdf on Solaris features which summarises the overall features, now I will convince him with the inputs that you have given. Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com wrote: Sriram Popuri wrote: 1) Is system administation more difficult or more complicated in Solaris ? What he probably wants to know is whether solaris has GUI interfaces on the desktop for at least the common system adminstrative tasks. You can use Solaris Management Console. type smc (/usr/sbin/smc) in a terminal or click from the menu. This will bringup a window through which you can manage many things. [...] Storage services: Um ... it is recommended to use Storage Services for viewing only. There are a few bugs here that can cause unintended disk formatting! In addition JDS (GNOME) from Solaris Express Build 54 onwards has additional nice GUIs for managing Users and Groups, Configure Network without rebooting etc. Just go to Main Menu - Administration and Main Menu - Preferences. Regards, Moinak. ___ ug-bosug mailing list List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20070412/39c524ef/attachment.html
[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.
I suppose there is some misunderstanding about Solaris here. I wonder how somebody can learn Microsoft Windows on Solaris Machine (unless they understood Solaris as a hardware). - Karthic On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Hello, The following syllabus information is received from the school: XI Std. June July An Introduction to Computers Volume 1 Number Systems An Introduction to Windows Windows Explorer, computers, Communications August Internet September HTML - An Introduction to html - some more tags, Beyond the basics I II, Developing Webpages October Flow Charts Volume II Elements of C Language Simple C programs Control Structures November Loop Structures December Arrays and Structures Functions, Library Functions January Files Standard XII June Star Office Writer Text Formatting Spell Check Corrections Working With Tables July Page Formatting Spread Sheet Database August Mutlimedia Introduction Star Office Impress Object Oriented Concepts using C+ Overview of C+ September Basic Statements Functions October Structured Data types -Arrays Classes and Objects Polymorphisms November Constuctors and Destructors Inherittance Impact of Computers on Society December IT enabled Services Comptuer Ethics This is for Standards XI and XII. From next academic year onwards, Std VI onwards will have subjects like Visual Basic, Java and additional subjects. At a later stage Open Solaris can work with the authorities to rationalize the syllabus and suggest an improved syllabus, but for now, how do I say that Solaris is better for this syllabus ? How would students learn Microsoft Windows on a Solaris machine ? Thank you Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Dear Shivakumar, Moinack and Sriram, you have given me a wealth of information. This morning I prepared a pdf on Solaris features which summarises the overall features, now I will convince him with the inputs that you have given. Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/5/07, Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com wrote: Sriram Popuri wrote: 1) Is system administation more difficult or more complicated in Solaris ? What he probably wants to know is whether solaris has GUI interfaces on the desktop for at least the common system adminstrative tasks. You can use Solaris Management Console. type smc (/usr/sbin/smc) in a terminal or click from the menu. This will bringup a window through which you can manage many things. [...] Storage services: Um ... it is recommended to use Storage Services for viewing only. There are a few bugs here that can cause unintended disk formatting! In addition JDS (GNOME) from Solaris Express Build 54 onwards has additional nice GUIs for managing Users and Groups, Configure Network without rebooting etc. Just go to Main Menu - Administration and Main Menu - Preferences. Regards, Moinak. ___ ug-bosug mailing list List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 ___ ug-bosug mailing list List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 -- A good question never has a good answer -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20070412/303c425c/attachment.html
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No point over-engineering the solutions such as VMware if windows *has* to be taught. Multiple issues - technical/legal/administrative will need to be dealt with. Legal issue being the trickiest since these are always current and may change at any point of time. Just setup windows and teach windows. But do have it as dual boot to teach students non-windows topics. regards Shiv On 4/12/07, Srichand Pendyala srichand.pendyala at gmail.com wrote: Hi! On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 23:59 +0530, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: Dear Karthik, snip Dual Boot or VMware ? Which one is most suitable ? Which one is less expensive ? -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20070412/839c8c75/attachment.html
