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cmcanulty

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From: Beulah, Michigan

Registered: 2014-05-10

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Linux for education

I am trying to install linux for education Ubuntu 20.04 mate edition on an old acer with no luck. It runs xubuntu 20.04 fine. Is there a way to install it within xubuntu as I can't get the life DVD to boot or install. The machine won't boot from usb but will from DVD. I burned 2 different DVDs in case one had an issue and still no luck. The web page above isn't clear whether a live edition is possible an option. I have 3 identical acers to do this on.It is for a very poor non profit education science project for kids. Thank you

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/li-f-e-l … -now/17077

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cybero … es/Li-f-e/

Last edited by cmcanulty (2020-07-08 15:57:38)

woistmeinauto

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Registered: 2020-03-29

Posts: 54

Re: Linux for education

Why don't you try Manjaro Mate?  Btw this really doesn't look like the place to ask that question.

Manjaro is good in terms of hardware detection. You will have more up to date packages and apps. But if it has to be ubuntu there is no guarantee installing it on xubuntu will work, since it's the same thing anyways.

Here : https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install- … ossa-linux

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 531

Re: Linux for education

I don't know what that is but if it's available on Ubuntu then Xubuntu will have it as well. They are the same distribution with a different desktop environment. They share package sources. If it's available in the through the package manager then you just need to install it.

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cmcanulty

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From: Beulah, Michigan

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 266

Re: Linux for education

Here is what I originally posted describing the OS the 20.04 upgrade just came out a few days ago
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/li-f-e-l … -now/17077

woistmeinauto

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Registered: 2020-03-29

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Re: Linux for education

Here is what I originally posted describing the OS the 20.04 upgrade just came out a few days ago
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/li-f-e-l … -now/17077

Why are you not using a usb stick? Just get rufus. First try the iso image mode, sometimes that doesn't work for old hardware in that case try DD mode.
Sometimes you have to burn the dvd slowly else it's corrupted. DVDs are of different qualities and not all respond well to faster writing speeds.

What is the problem that you encounter?
Does not boot dvd at all?
Or does it boot but you end up with an installation failure?

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 531

Re: Linux for education

I just read the link you posted, well the blurb about Li.Fe.?? and several of the the comments. My opinion, this is more trouble than it's worth. First thing, it depends on Wine. Wine is not and never will be a mainstream solution to install software. There are limited applications that will run on it, granted the list is large but many only partially work or lose some functionality. It's also very buggy, unstable and unreliable. To bring a new user into the Linux world and tell them Wine will let you do all things you are used to doing but do it on Linux is a huge mistake. Wine has a place in the Linux world for sure but the user should be learning how to use the tool(Linux) rather than trying to find ways to make poorly written Windows based software run./opinion

And a second opinion just for fun. I wouldn't recommend *buntu to a new user. I used Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu for a while. I will say one thing, it taught me how to use the command line. Every time an update was sent down the pipe I would read the "Update This Way" from the source. More times than not I was left at a boot prompt or no Xserver. After some time with that I was fed up and moved on to bigger, better things. Thanks for the education ubuntu! I still see horror stories about this still happening.

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cmcanulty

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From: Beulah, Michigan

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 266

Re: Linux for education

I wanted it for the computers I am upgrading for a local kids science non profit. It is designed for education. It is based on ubuntu20.04 so I don't see the issue about wine.