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Topic: Expiration Date? (Read 1731 times)
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nrogara000
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Hi. I recently set up a physics lab with LPL, and I was wondering if there would be an expiration date for the beta. Does vernier know this yet? Is there even a release date set for it? Thanks
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Jake
Vernier Specialist
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At this time, we have no expiration date for the Public Beta. We are hoping to hear back from people who use it in order to help us decide the future of this code.
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nrogara000
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Well, for what it's worth, I suggest keeping this project going. I think in the long run LPL is going to be successful. Especially with the announcement of Google's Chrome OS and it being based on a Linux kernel, more and more organizations are going to go with linux, and I think LPL will be very useful to them. That's just what I think. Thank you for making it. We already have Logger Pro for windows, but LPL saved us $600 worth of Windows XP licenses for new laptops that we got.
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srp
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I also urge you to continue with this project. We currently use laptops (mac ibooks) in our lab, that has about 90 students at a time. Our ibooks are aging - some are about 8 years old (but still work OK for data collection, though installing current system software is not possible). I think that laptops are overkill for a lab of this size - currently we have about 60 laptops. Replacing them with inexpensive netbooks would be a significant cost savings, while allowing many, if not most, of the features of a laptop (such as networking for example, as well as some word-processing or spreadsheets, though typing on some netbooks is not that easy).
From what I've seen of the LPL it is easy to install & works well, as long as a supported netbook & linux version are used.
Plus we wouldn't have to panic quite so much when something gets spilled on a $300 machine vs. a $1000 machine :-)
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