[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: doc /build faq.html
harris41
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a wide range of changes--answering question 7 (what institutions are involved);
also introducing and fixing several hyperlinks; minor text changes and
improvements
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Index: doc/build/faq.html
diff -u doc/build/faq.html:1.6 doc/build/faq.html:1.7
--- doc/build/faq.html:1.6 Wed May 1 22:22:30 2002
+++ doc/build/faq.html Sat Oct 12 19:29:05 2002
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<!-- $Id: faq.html,v 1.6 2002/05/02 02:22:30 harris41 Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: faq.html,v 1.7 2002/10/12 23:29:05 harris41 Exp $ -->
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta>
@@ -36,8 +36,10 @@
<br />3. <a href="#q3">Why do I have to worry about choosing a "role"?</a>
<br />4. <a href="#q4">What kind of computer and operating will this work
on?</a>
-<br />4a. <a href="#q4">Will this work on BSD Unix?</a>
-<br />4b. <a href="#q4">Will this work on Mac OS X?</a>
+<br />4a. <a href="#q4a">Will this work on BSD Unix?</a>
+<br />4b. <a href="#q4b">Will this work on Mac OS X?</a>
+<br />4c. <a href="#q4c">Will this work on an old SPARC, Solaris, SGI, NeXT, or
+DEC machine that is collecting cobwebs in my university's technology center?</a>
<br />5. <a href="#q5">What does LON-CAPA stand for?</a>
<br />6. <a href="#q6">Who wrote this code?</a>
<br />7. <a href="#q7">Where is this software being used?</a>
@@ -55,17 +57,20 @@
<br />17. <a href="#q17">How are you similar or different to
WebCT, Blackboard, etc?</a>
</blockquote>
-<hr />1. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q1" />What is TtH and how do I know I have it?</font></font>
+<hr />1. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q1" />What is TtH and how
+do I know I have it?</font></font>
<p>
TtH = TeX-to-HTML.
-You should have a file called tth.so on your system. If you do not
-have it, then you should download and install the binary
-http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/binaries/tth.so
-into your
-/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.???/ directory.
-
+You should have a file called <tt>tth.so</tt> on your system. If you do not
+have it (should be located somewhere underneath /usr/lib/perl5), then you
+should download and install the binary
+<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/tth.so">
+http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/tth.so</a>
+into your /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.???/ directory (5.??? corresponds
+to the version number of your perl distribution).
</p>
-<hr />2. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q2" />So I think I'm done with the LON-CAPA installation.
+<hr />2. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q2" />So I think I'm done
+with the LON-CAPA installation.
Now what do I do? How do I begin?</font></font>
<p>
You will first need to set up a domain coordinator on your machine.
@@ -75,7 +80,8 @@
<a href="mailto:felicia@lon-capa.org">Felicia</a> is helping answer
questions related to the LON-CAPA web interface.
</p>
-<hr />3. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q3" />Why do I have to worry about choosing a "role"?</font></font>
+<hr />3. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q3" />Why do I have to
+worry about choosing a "role"?</font></font>
<p>
A critical feature of the LON-CAPA interface is the idea that a user
must select a role before doing anything further inside the educational
@@ -109,7 +115,7 @@
</p>
<p>
If thousands of students start accessing the box as a web server...
-well you may want to consider more options. The design of the LON-CAPA
+you may want to consider more options. The design of the LON-CAPA
system is to naturally and transparently load-balance on multiple
computer clusters. So, a simple solution for running an entire
college campus is to just have an adequate plurality of LON-CAPA
@@ -118,15 +124,24 @@
<p>
We like to think of high web server usage as "a good problem" though.. :)
</p>
-<hr />4a. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q4" />Will this work on BSD Unix?</font></font>
+<hr />4a. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q4a" />Will this work on
+BSD Unix?</font></font>
<p>
No.
</p>
-<hr />4b. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q4" />Will this work on Mac OS X?</font></font>
+<hr />4b. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q4b" />Will this work on
+Mac OS X?</font></font>
<p>
No.
</p>
-<hr />5. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q5" />What does LON-CAPA stand for?</font></font>
+<hr />4c. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q4c">Will this work on
+an old SPARC, Solaris, SGI, NeXT, or DEC machine that is collecting cobwebs in
+my university's technology center?</font></font>
+<p>
+No.
+</p>
+<hr />5. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q5" />What does LON-CAPA
+stand for?</font></font>
<p>
The Learning Online Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach.
</p>
@@ -136,41 +151,66 @@
<p>
Or something.
</p>
-<hr />6. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q6" />Who wrote this code?</font></font>
+<hr />6. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q6" />Who wrote this
+code?</font></font>
<p>
This code was originally written by a group of staff and graduate assistants
at Michigan State University. We are now receiving software contributions
-from several other universities. The technical design behind the project
-was constructed by Gerd Kortemeyer.
+from several other universities. The original technical design behind the
+project was constructed by Gerd Kortemeyer.
</p>
-<hr />7. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q7" />Where is this software being used?</font></font>
-<hr />8. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q8" />What are current plans for the installation?</font></font>
+<hr />7. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q7" />Where is this
+software being used?</font></font>
+<p>
+The existing user sites are:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li>4 high schools in Michigan</li>
+<li>Westshore Community College and Truckee Meadows Community College</li>
+<li>Universities in Senegal, Hungary, Germany, Canada (Simon Frasier
+University) and Zimbabwe</li>
+<li>Florida State University</li>
+<li>George Washington University</li>
+<li>Michigan State University</li>
+<li>Ohio University</li>
+<li>SUNY Stony Brook</li>
+<li>Florida State University</li>
+<li>University of Massachusetts at Amherst</li>
+<li>University of Michigan</li>
+<li>University of South Carolina</li>
+<li>University of North Carolina, Greensboro</li>
+</ul>
+<hr />8. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q8" />What are current
+plans for the installation?</font></font>
<p>
We have been able to run LON-CAPA on RedHat 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, Debian, and
Mandrake.
</p>
-<hr />9. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q9" />How do I upgrade?</font></font>
+<hr />9. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q9" />How do I
+upgrade?</font></font>
<p>
You must use CVS over the network.
Please click on the upgrade button at the top of this web page.
</p>
-<hr />10. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q10" />What are RPMs?</font></font>
+<hr />10. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q10" />What are
+RPMs?</font></font>
<p>
Software packages that are (usually) very easy to install. RPM stands
for RedHat Packaging Manager software package.
</p>
-<hr />11. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q11" />How do I know this will be a secure solution for
-my users?</font></font>
+<hr />11. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q11" />How do I know
+this will be a secure solution for my users?</font></font>
<p>
LON-CAPA is distributed without warranty as described in the
-<a href="http://mycrow.mph.msu.edu/docs/license/index.html">license</a>.
+<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/docs/license/index.html">license</a>.
</p>
<p>
We do think our security strategy is fairly robust. Important communications
are encrypted and the server-client validation is instantiated in such
a way as to prevent any remotely conceivable kind of spoofing.
</p>
-<hr />12. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q12" />How do I contribute code?</font></font>
+<hr />12. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q12" />How do I
+contribute code?</font></font>
<p>
Send a diff to <a href="mailto:lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org">
lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org</a>. It helps if you give it context
@@ -182,7 +222,9 @@
<hr />13. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q13" />
Is LON-CAPA owned by any umbrella company?</font></font>
<p>
-No and hopefully never. That's not what we're about.
+No and hopefully never. That is not what we are about. We are about a
+freeware-community oriented approach where the software features are directly
+specified by the involved academic institutions and instructors.
</p>
<hr />14. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q14" />
What are the costs?</font></font>
@@ -200,8 +242,11 @@
<hr />15. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q15" />
What kind of computer do I need?</font></font>
<p>
-You need a RedHat 6.2-7.2 Intel-compatible computer.
-We do not currently support the SPARC and SGI hardware architectures.
+You need a RedHat 7.3 Intel-compatible computer.
+For more information on RedHat compatible hardware, visit
+<a href="http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/">http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/</a>.
+We do not currently support the SPARC, SGI, Macintosh, or other hardware
+architectures.
</p>
<hr />16. <font color="blue"><font size="+1"><a name="q16" />
Where can I learn more about the technical
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