Alessandro Selli wrote: > Aww, com'on, it's been many years that every laptop sold had a WiFi > unit built-in, and even some Dell desktops are marketed with a WiFi card > built-in. USB WiFi dongles cost close to nothing. And that's leaving > out all mobile units.
This is all true. However, my point was that we often have to deal with bog- standard desktop hardware and no extras (like WiFi). In the course of my work I get to see the insides of classrooms of all sorts of training providers. Many of them like to equip their Linux classrooms with their clunky old desktop PCs that current Windows versions won't run well on but that can reasonably be made to work with Linux. This is both because they don't want to throw these machines out just yet even if they can no longer use them for their Windows classes, and because their technicians often have very little Linux knowledge and don't want to run into problems installing whichever Linux distribution they have lying around on the cutting-edge hardware they're buying for Windows, where there may be driver problems (they prefer the sort of install where you pop in the CD, hit RETURN a dozen times, and end up with a sort-of-running Linux system to the one that stops halfway through because the installation CD won't recognise your graphics card or disk controller). It is often an uphill battle to get these people to install an up-to-date Linux distribution instead of one from two years ago (just so we can get, e.g., a systemd-based system that actually works, rather than one that is two- thirds legacy init scripts and a systemd that is missing various interesting features which the training manual is talking about). Asking them to provide extra WLAN dongles or for that matter ARM-based microservers for everybody would really be overreaching. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau … Linup Front GmbH (MAX21) … Linux- & Open-Source-Schulungen [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-0, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Robert-Koch-Str. 9, 64331 Weiterstadt Post: Postf. 100121, 64201 Darmstadt DE Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705) Geschf: Oliver Michel, Nils Manegold _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
