This page is meant to be a template for questions that we plan to ask our expert team of testers when they try Ubuntu on our EAC computers.

It would be fair to set up at least one Ubuntu machine with our current EAC specs, and one machine with our existing setup (Debian).

• Pretend like you're writing a paper for school.
• What applications would you use?
  • Open Office
  • Firefox

• Did the computer ever lock up?

• Insert a USB key into computer.
• Does computer see the USB key?
• Save a document onto the USB Key
• Safely remove the USB key

Pretend that you go home, then want to work on the document that's on the USB key.

• Put the USB key back into the computer
• Open the document that's on the USB key.
  • Make some changes to the document.
• Safely remove the USB key.

• Give students a CD to rip
  • See if they can do it
• Playback of CD
  • Does it peg the computer, or can you do other things while listening to a CD?

• EAC computers don't come with DVDs, so if they want to play videos, it would have to be from the Internet.

• Play a game or two with other applications open.
• For example, pretend you're writing a paper, and want to take a break and play a game.
  • Open Open Office
  • Start writing a paper.
  • Minimize Open Office

Ubuntu comes with a very handy add/remove program. It's under the “Applications” menu at the top of the screen, and is called “Add/Remove”.

Have students mess around with this program and find cool stuff to download.

• Use Ubuntu computer to look @ the websites that you normally look at when at Byteworks.
• How does speed/responsiveness compare with Debian-based EAC computer? (Cannot use the classroom machines, because they have better processors/memory than standard EAC computers)

• Did the computer boot quickly, or in a reasonable amount of time?
• Once you logged in, were you able to use the computer immediately, or did it seem like it was still loading things and ignoring your mouse clicks/keyboard?

• What do you like better about Ubuntu than Debian?
• What don't you like better?
• Would you want to bring in your computer and put Ubuntu on it? Why / Why not?