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Szerző: Hendrik Boom
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Címzett: dng
Tárgy: Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 01:07:19PM +0200, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> On 10/17/2018 03:18 PM, terryc wrote:
>
> > > Machines can
> > > ping each other now, so besides introducing Devuan, I also want to
> > > introduce Ubuntu via Devuan by some kind of remote GUI access or
> > > like. Suggestions? Please note that there is no Internet access to
> > > those boxes, so anything needed for each comp must be downloaded
> > > elsewhere and brought on USB or CD.
> > Burn the basic DVD and do the installation from it and if you have
> > it on hand, you can show how easily the computer can acquire other
> > applications by;
> > 0) open a terminal
> > b) aptitude search some application (or hint utility).
> > c)sudo aptitude install chosen-utility.
> > d) utility.
>
> It's a seniors club, 70-75 at average. Some of them are more-less fluent in
> (pirated) Window$ -based mouse clicking to browse the Net, email, and
> office. So my point is to show them that there are free & unrestricted
> alternatives. As I said I have two machines there, one is wired to a big TV
> so they who sit in a last row can listen & watch. That one machine is Devuan
> Jessie 64-bit for now, I installed it just for test as I never used Devuan
> distro before. However, I am more experienced in Ubuntu, so I want to show
> them its desktop too. But the idea is not to disconnect/reconnect each
> machine from the TV to switch different distro, instead I want to run Devuan
> as a 'proxy' for Ubuntu to appear on TV as a second option.


Why not just dual-boot between Devuan and Ubuntu?
Dual boot doen't *require* one of the systems to be nonLinux!

-- hendrik