This article is part of Interactive whiteboard software testing series. From this software trio, Promethean offers perhaps the most sophisticated method for delivering their software. ActivInspire can be installed through Promethean’s own Ubuntu repository providing all the needed deb -packages needed to run. The biggest problem in the installation was finding the actual software package. [...]
This article is part of Interactive whiteboard software testing series. Dymo provides a deb package of their MimioStudio software for Ubuntu. Therefore the installation was fairly straightforward and here’s what I did after downloading the package. Deb -package was installed with dpkg. sudo dpkg -i mimio-studio_7.11-2_i386.deb Because the installation of the software required libfakekey0 -library [...]
This article is part of Interactive whiteboard software testing series. If ActivInspire was most sophisticated then Lynx 4 has the most exotic installation package. It mainly reminds me of the way things are done with Windows, as the software is distributed as a self-extracting binary file. After downloading the package I executed it as superuser: [...]
I wrote about installing IWB software on a basic Ubuntu 10.04 a few days ago and finally here’s the english version. The point of the articles is to document the installation process of each software and see how it looks like. As I’m not a software developer this is just a description of what I [...]
The past days have been spent on test preparations. We have been doing first test installations and finding out how the accompanying software works for each of the interactive whiteboards. The installations have been done on stock Ubuntu 10.04 LTS setup. We have been focusing at this point on installation and first-time use experiences. This [...]
Interactive whiteboards have been coming to classrooms for some years already and here at Opinsys we’ve seen the growing interest towards their linux compatibility. The situation for schools using linux is challenging as there is not much information available and it can be also conflicting. Here at Opinsys we have some experience in getting some [...]
A user logs in, opens some applications, plays a game, launches a browser and visits a webpage. Processes process. The user logs out. What happens to application processes when a user logs out? Do the processes die? And if they do, do they do so willingly or unwillingly? Or perhaps they just lay dormant until [...]
There are many system management tools that provide user and device management for linux systems, but most of tools are built on the assumption that all data belongs to a single organisation like a company or a school district. Managing user databases for two school organisations means having separate installation for both organisations. In the [...]
Here at Opinsys we’ve been scratching our itch for better user management tools for quite some time. We work with some hundred schools around Finland and provide them Ubuntu based systems. Although the needs differ quite a bit between them, there are also quite a few similar needs – user and device management being one [...]
Over the years we have been using multiple version control systems and earlier this year we decided to start using Bazaar instead of Subversion because we were planning to start using Launchpad for our development. For various reasons we didn’t start using Launchpad after all, but moved to Github, so now came time to migrate [...]
