[ale] OT: Linux+ Course requires Silverlight

[Derek Atkins]

You might want to take a look at pipelight.

-derek


On Tue, December 16, 2014 11:45 am, K Thompson wrote:
> So, after talking to JD and getting convinced that it would be okay to
> complain about this using this forum, I finally decided to speak up about
> it.
>
> My university has a Linux+ course that I am in that requires Silverlight
> to
> run so that a newb like me would not be able to run the course outside of
> Windows. It is so frustrating that I cannot get a true Linux user
> experience of immersion into the OS through this course.  I was really
> looking forward to ditching Windows for a little bit.  Ugh!  Just Ugh!  I
> know I could have probably done it using something else, but then I'd
> still
> feel like that I was subject to Microsoft in some way.
>
> Anyways...I apologize for my rant, but I just wanted to put this out there
> and see if I was the only one that thought this was outrageous!
>
> --
> Kerry Thompson
> 478-718-4091
> kerthomp11 at gmail.com
> kerry.d.thompson.mil at mail.mil
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