Hello everyone,
I've posted a howto about getting Moodle to work on the Asus EEE PC - http://greenhughes.com/content/installing-moodle-asus-eee-pc, would be great to hear what you think. Also, what are your opinions on using Linux desktops in education?
what are your opinions on using Linux desktops in education?
I have an EEEPC too and I think that we could be having "e-learning appliances" built on these cheap laptops on a linux that you can customise and lockdown at a very low cost. Like a custom OLPC (not just the hw, but the sw, with regular content and sw updates) but for your institution.
That's what I did to get Moodle and OpenLearn working on Kubuntu - http://greenhughes.com/content/learn-go-openlearn-kubuntu-and-moodle - and it works very well! On the EEE I wanted to do it manually so I could experiment with the installation process a bit. It is just one way to install Moodle though, has anyone else tried different ways on the EEE?
The dream of course would be to just be able to do:
apt-get install [your-learning-environment]
.. and then be able to add/remove courses to Moodle through apt. Does this sound possible with Moodle? (I'm new to it!).
The dream of course would be to just be able to do:
apt-get install [your-learning-environment]
.. and then be able to add/remove courses to Moodle through apt. Does this sound possible with Moodle? (I'm new to it!).
I'm just getting my eeepc set up as a development environment and moodle installed easily once i had used apt with extra repositories to install apache and mysql. Custom corners displays well on the small screen, but the message pop-up squashes the text to 1.5 lines. More tweaking needed.
I'm actually typing this on my eeepc in bed at 2:00am after drinking too much coffee to be able to sleep and its amazing how little noise the keyboard makes. Great little machine.
Maybe she'll wake up if I start watching Life of Brian...
I'm actually typing this on my eeepc in bed at 2:00am after drinking too much coffee to be able to sleep and its amazing how little noise the keyboard makes. Great little machine.
Maybe she'll wake up if I start watching Life of Brian...
>>...what are your opinions on using Linux desktops in education?
I am thrilled with the new Asus EEE PC. Does more than I expected, and only the 7 inch screen needs to be improved for me. I would have bought one by now, but no Linux, only a Windows XP model is being offered by Asus in Japan for US$450. Will wait for a trip to North America to get a Linux one.
Our university is slowing opening to open source. But no desktops yet...
I am thrilled with the new Asus EEE PC. Does more than I expected, and only the 7 inch screen needs to be improved for me. I would have bought one by now, but no Linux, only a Windows XP model is being offered by Asus in Japan for US$450. Will wait for a trip to North America to get a Linux one.
Our university is slowing opening to open source. But no desktops yet...