[K12OSN] OT: VMware offers free player with Ubuntu vm

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Thu Nov 3 00:06:42 UTC 2005


Is there any K12LTSP virtual machine out there?

--Huck

Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> I usually hand out Knoppix, Mepis or DSL live cd's to all my
> programming students. But I just tried VMware's free (as in beer)
> player
> 
> http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
> 
> with their Ubuntu vm
> 
> http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/browserapp.html
> 
> It will work on windows or linux. So students can use (a stripped down
> version) of Ubuntu on top of Windows at home.  No need to reboot and
> it has persistence.  Only catch is you really need 512MB for it to
> work properly, 256 is just too small for both windows and linux
> combined.
> 
> --
> Robert Arkiletian
> C++ GUI tutorial http://fltk.org/links.php?V19
> 
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