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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:10:35PM +0200, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> On 10/20/2018 04:31 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > >
> > > 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, both boxes came to the club installed with Window$, and I have to
> keep them that way (partially) until the club members clearly show they want
> to learn something else than that. And the boxes' features are insufficient
> for a triple-boot endeavours. Important is also to show the audience that
> they always can reboot into their 'favourite' environment.


Yeah. If triple-boot isn't in the cards, you can't instal both.

-- hendrik