Communications Tools documentation should cover more operating systems

shaunagm commented 10 years ago

Figure out which tools (IRC clients, Git bash and various Git GUIs, command line interfaces) are used on which operating systems
When presenters are demo-ing they should show (via screenshots if necessary) what students using other operating systems will see. So we need to get screenshots of those tools on those systems.

omsai commented 9 years ago

Where can one find a list of all operating system versions? I imagine the list would be:

Linux: Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian (which versions?)
Windows: 7, 8
Mac OS: ??

shaunagm commented 9 years ago

Wikipedia has a graph of distros by market share. According to this, OS X is the only Mac distribution with any real share. For Windows, we're looking at 7, 8, XP and Vista.

Perhaps this is an unfair assumption, but I see Ubuntu as the "gateway" Linux distro and imagine that any students who use Fedora or Debian will be pretty familiar with FLOSS already. They'll probably already be familiar with IRC clients, and the git experience should be the same across Linux distributions. Basically, I'm not worried about them (though I'm open to arguments that I should be).

So:

OS X
Windows 7, 8, XP, Vista
Ubuntu - if we want to be intense, we could check 12.04 to current (official support for 10.04 is going to expire in early 2015)

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