Hi,

As a result of the work between LinEx and Small Land we have produced 
installation packages for debian based distrib utions of Linux and RPM for 
redhat based.

I'll contact the LinEx guru (Jose Redrejo) to publish them

Cheers,

Diego


>Or Macs, which also install simply and cleanly.
>
>Seriously now, how many teachers currently use Linux?
>
>However, I'd like to get many more teachers using Linux, so now is a good 
>time to make the installation much simpler. ("Linux" does seem to denote a 
>far more ranging loose confederation of features and versions than even MS 
>and Apple provide -- we have certainly found this so with respect to both 
>3D and sound -- so I think it would be good for expert Linux hackers to 
>define and put forth the reasonable parameters on which an automatic 
>installer can and should depend.)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alan
>
>At 7:13 AM -0700 7/10/03, Dennis Daniels wrote:
>>>Alan Kay recently spoke at a large national educational technology
>>>conference in the US, so there may be other teacher folks who wander into
>>>the squeak site needing to understand the distinction between the two
>>>different squeak.exe files (same name; same icon for both the
>>>squeak.com/complete and squeakland.com/plugin versions).
>>That would be me, I saw Mr. Kay's presentation in Seattle and I went home 
>>afire to play with this app...
>>
>>Squeak hasn't been anywhere as easy to install as I had hoped. Two hours 
>>later, still not a squeak out of the install. I'm no expert with Linux, 
>>though I've been using it as my OS (RH) for about a year now... Chalk it 
>>up to user error, sure. But, Squeak should be as easy as
>>
>>apt-get install squeak
>>
>>should be easy if teachers are going to be using it.
>>
>>I was really surprised to find outdated rpms and no repository (apt-get). 
>>Mr Kay's presentation was aimed at teachers but I got the feeling, after 
>>looking at the install options, Squeak is for teachers who are using MS.
>>
>>I'll take a look at the 'new' instructions. Maybe I'll get it going this 
>>time...</end whine>
>>
>>Dennis
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