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Course Software Setup

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==Operating Systems==
Mozilla is a cross-platform product, and you will need to have both Windows and Linux installed on your hard drive. The best way to do this is to use Virtual Machines in order http://cs1.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Course_Software_Setup&action=editto to host test operating systems.
Choose either Windows or Linux as your main OS (NOTE: you can also use a Mac if you have one already). Mozilla recommends the following operating systems:
If installing Linux, be aware of a few issues:
# With First, with lab machines having multiple NICs (usually one machine out of each 'pod' of four): if you configure Linux to start both eth0 and eth1 at boot, both using DHCP and not bound to a specific MAC address, then you'll almost always get a network connection at startup as you move from PC to PC. To repeat: do not bind the NIC to a MAC address
# The other thing Second, remember that varies between the lab systems is the video card; most is different in some labs. Most modern Linux distros will automatically pick up the change and run a configuration utility. To avoid having the driver-change utility popup, set the video driver to "vesa" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (you. You'll sacrifice some video performance for universal compatibility)this way.
==Virtual Machines==

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