[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

[Karthic Somalinga]

I suppose there is some misunderstanding about Solaris here.
I wonder how somebody can learn Microsoft Windows on Solaris Machine (unless
they understood Solaris as a hardware).

- Karthic

On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <shiva.madras at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The following syllabus information is received from the school:
>
> XI Std.
>
> June July
>
> An Introduction to Computers Volume 1
> Number Systems
> An Introduction to Windows
> Windows Explorer, computers, Communications
>
> August
>
> Internet
>
> September
>
> HTML - An Introduction to html - some more tags, Beyond the basics I & II,
> Developing Webpages
>
> October
>
> Flow Charts Volume II
> Elements of C Language
> Simple C programs
> Control Structures
>
> November
>
> Loop Structures
>
> December
>
> Arrays and Structures
> Functions, Library Functions
>
> January
>
> Files
>
> Standard XII
>
> June
>
> Star Office Writer
> Text Formatting
> Spell Check & Corrections
> Working With Tables
>
> July
>
> Page Formatting
> Spread Sheet
> Database
>
> August
>
> Mutlimedia Introduction
> Star Office Impress
> Object Oriented Concepts using C+
> Overview of C+
>
> September
>
> Basic Statements
> Functions
>
> October
>
> Structured Data types -Arrays
> Classes and Objects
> Polymorphisms
>
> November
>
> Constuctors and Destructors
> Inherittance
> Impact of Computers on Society
>
> December
>
> IT enabled Services
> Comptuer Ethics
>
> This is for Standards XI and XII. From next academic year onwards, Std VI
> onwards will have subjects like Visual Basic, Java and additional subjects.
>
> At a later stage Open Solaris can work with the authorities to rationalize
> the syllabus and suggest an improved syllabus, but for now, how do I say
> that Solaris is better for this syllabus ?
>
> How would students learn Microsoft Windows on a Solaris machine ?
>
> Thank you
> Sivasubramanian.
>
>
>
>
> On 4/5/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <shiva.madras at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > Dear Shivakumar, Moinack and Sriram,
> >
> > you have given me a wealth of information. This morning I prepared a pdf
> > on Solaris features which summarises the overall features, now I will
> > convince him with the inputs that you have given.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Sivasubramanian.
> >
> >
> > On 4/5/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > Sriram Popuri wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         1) Is system administation more difficult or more
> > > complicated
> > > >         in Solaris ?  What he probably wants to know is whether
> > > >         solaris has GUI interfaces on the desktop for at least the
> > > >         common system adminstrative tasks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > You can use Solaris Management Console.
> > > > type smc (/usr/sbin/smc) in a terminal or click from the menu.  This
> > > > will bringup a window through which you can manage many things.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > Storage services:
> > >
> > >   Um ... it is recommended to use Storage Services for viewing only.
> > > There are
> > >   a few bugs here that can cause unintended disk formatting!
> > >
> > >   In addition JDS (GNOME) from Solaris Express Build 54 onwards has
> > > additional
> > >   nice GUIs for managing Users and Groups, Configure Network without
> > > rebooting
> > >   etc. Just go to  Main Menu -> Administration and Main Menu ->
> > > Preferences.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Moinak.
> > >
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