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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.
Hi,
I've done a couple of 60-point science courses with the OU in recent years. The problem (which may or may not be significant depending upon the course content) may be with the interactive stuff they supply on DVD. The videos themselves are fine (regular DVD content), but they also often provide application-based stuff. One of my courses, for example, had an "explore the sea-bed around the mid-Atlantic ridge", which, IIRC was an actual Windows app (although it might actually have been Java-based - it's been a little while). I must admit that as I have a Windows box kicking around for emergencies, I didn't even bother to try getting any of it to work in Linux (even just to see "if I could").
Everything else was fine. I wrote all my TMAs in OpenOffice on Linux (the formula editor, once you got used to it, and its export-to-PDF feature produced *very* professional-looking submissions), and the eTMA service works fine on Firefox. I was/am running Mandriva, so not sure if any of this really helps :-)
Regards, Simon
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