[School-GNU-Linux] Re: SGL 3.0
- From: "Harikrishnan. K.B" <hkbksd@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: schoolgnu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:32:10 +0530
Please tell me what we have to do if after instalation of linux the
following msg are seen
1.error 18
2.debian login
3.diskboot error
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:57 AM, pradeep mattara <pkmattara@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>
> 1. Installing SGL 3.0 using base system 1013 is quite OK in new machines.
> But in old machines, the tux paint data seems a problem case. It is not
> getting installed and the aptitude fails at that point every time we try it.
> (error 255). Here we have two concerns, that we expect some detailed
> explanation, please!
>
> * Can we skip tux paint data at this time, and continue the installation of
> the packages of SGL 3.0 for a successful completion? After that the
> interested parties may or may not (Of course!) install tux paint and
> dependencies using synaptic or any other utility.
>
>
> * Can we pre-edit the package list for the tasksel to remove the tuxpaint
> in the case of doubtful systems? If it is possible, please send us a package
> list of softwares included in SGL 3.0 (In SGL tasksel) and tell us where
> should we place that to make it possible? This also make us able to install
> those packages one by one from the CD or Debian DVD.
>
>
> 2. Its for private circulation :). The above tux paint has got some
> importance after a circular from DPI. Teachers are calling master trainers
> asking how to make tuxpaint full screen. Its possible if we edit
> /etc/tuxpaint/tuxpaint.conf file.
>
> For that
>
> Open a root terminal
>
> Issue the command #gedit /etc/tuxpaint/tuxpaint.conf
>
> In the opening file remove the # mark from the starting of the line- full
> screen=yes.
>
> save and exit. its done.
>
>
> 3. When i visited a school last week, a teacher said me that many CDs, even
> those supplied by IT @ school project are not working in SGL 3.0 or lite. Of
> course they are for windows, but we want them to run in GNU/Linux now. i
> suggested VLC media player instead of totem at that time. But there was a
> mail about it, some months ago, from Radhakrishnan Master, Irinjalakkuda
> telling that totem will work better with totem-xine than with
> totem-gstreamer.
>
> That is:
>
> Remove totem and totem-gstreamer using synaptic package manager and install
> the combination totem and totem-xine. (or just try to install totem-xine, we
> can see that it contradicts with totem-gstreamer which will be automatically
> removed.)
>
>
> i dont know what the experts say on why gstreamer is set default, i agree
> Radhakrishnan master for this.
>
>
> 4. when i grabbed a computer mouse first time in my life, six years ago, i
> thought the programming language BASIC should be introduced to secondary
> students and i whole heartedly tried to convince the teachers coming for the
> workshops why that chapter is that much important. For i myself, i tried my
> best to cross the ass's bridge eagerly anticipating that moment where the
> whole programming suddenly turns easy as what Gandhiji said about Euclidean
> Geometry.
>
>
> Its the time that the educationalists re-structure the curriculum. With
> these six years-i know what you think, there fore it is very humbly said
> that – its the time to purge it off. Whatever justifications we make for it,
> that will not take those young buds any where.
>
>
> Do you recognize the name Julian Albo? Its he who interpreted BASIC for
> GNU/Linux. See what he says:
>
> *See an opinion about BASIC/BLASSIC-It is a programming language,
> originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the
> early 1960s, which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in
> proto-hackers. Edsger W. Dijkstra observed in "Selected Writings on
> Computing: A Personal Perspective" that "It is practically impossible to
> teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to
> BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally*
>
> *mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." This is another case (like
> Pascal) of the cascading lossage that happens when a language deliberately
> designed as an educational toy gets taken too seriously. A novice can write
> short BASIC programs (on the order of 10-20 lines) very easily; writing
> anything longer (a) is very painful, and (b) encourages bad habits that will
> make it harder to use more powerful languages well. This wouldn't be so bad
> if historical accidents hadn't made BASIC so common on low-end micros in the
> 1980s. As it is, it probably ruined tens of thousands of potential
> wizards........"The new hacker's dictionary".*
>
> *I disagree with this point of view, but...You have been warned!-Julian
> Albo*
>
>
> 5. Could i ask about the support group formation for the school GNU/Linux?
> Shouldn't we notice that the number of mails coming to this mailing list has
> gone down? Its not because that men has got an intellectual saturation, but
> just because that all doubts that we raise are crying unattended. Will u
> share what u know with us, please!
>
>
> 6. In last week, there was a sequence of wishing and greeting mails through
> this mailing list. if it happened again i warn U that i will define what
> this mailing list is. (Don't stare at me like how dare you Mr.
> junior...............!)
>
>
> 7. And finally, is there any technic to install SGL 3.0 in machines with
> nvidia chipsets?
>
>
>
> pradeep kumar mattara
>
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