It was the way OU said this on their web site that concerned me, Wayne. There is, as you suggest, always the possibility that the software will 'just work' but I felt it wise to check. Another thing. Linux friendly *external* DVD players? Any recommendations? Or can you plug and play with most? Thanks again. Bev.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Stallwood" ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk To: ALUG main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Open University and software Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:53:01 +0100
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 18:22 +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I'm hoping to do some studying with the OU but looking at their web site it basically says that they can't support Linux. I thought I'd ask whether folk on this list have had any problems with software incompatibility (which is for Windows but can, they say, be used on Macs) and Ubuntu. Thanks.
Bev.
Not supported can often just mean "not tested on" if their site works on both Windows and Mac (and therefore presumably more than one browser) then there is a very good chance it will work on firefox on ubuntu.
If software resources are made available for your your course outside the scope of the website then it may be that only Windows and Mac binaries are made available. Then your choice is to either experiment with Wine by following the recent thread on the main list or install Windows in a virtual machine (the virtual machine can be operated for free but you will need a Windows licence) and this being an option I would strongly recommend that you attend the next iplug meet as samwise is performing a demonstration.
If the site just wont play in firefox on linux then a last resort may be http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page, but that resource is intended more for site development than actually using a browser in anger.
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