Free basic edition of SMART Notebook for Linux
SMART Tech provides a basic free modern edition of the SMART Notebook software for Windows and Mac users only. I would like please to request that SMART Tech offers also to the Linux users a modern free basic edition of the same software (SMART Notebook).
The current version (at the time I am writing, March 2023) of that SMART Notebook for Windows is 18 but for Linux it is only 11. Version 11 is not a modern version and it doesn't work with the recent Linux. It works only with Ubuntu 20.04 or Linux Mint 20.3 (because Mint 20.3 is just a customized Ubuntu 20.04).
Moreover, the installation on Linux directly from the SMART’s repository doesn't work.
Also, the installation guide for Linux has a lot of mistakes. For example, the section (Verifying the integrity of the packages) at pages 6 and 7, doesn't work and provides a wrong Fingerprint number.
I suggest for the SMART Tech management to offer the version 11 for Linux for free for the Linux users until SMART Tech creates a new modern driver and modern free basic version of SMART Notebook software for Linux users.
Hatem Saied
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Maik Bäumer
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I tried to use our existing Product Key of SMART Notebook 16 (Windows) and it really worked for SMART Notebook 11.1 SP3 (Linux).
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Maik Bäumer
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I totally agree with you. As a first step it should be easy for SMART Tech to publish a product key that activates the basic version of SMART Notebook for Linux or release a new version respectively a service pack with an unlimited trial period.
Luckily I got SMART Notebook 11.1 SP3 working on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS by installing it on Ubuntu 20.04 and after that upgrading the distro to 22.04 . Apt-key is deprecated in 22.04 and I did not get the keyring management working with trusted.gpg.d in this case. There should be a proper documentation for modern linux distributions. The published documentation is still for version 11.1 SP2, not SP3.
The driver package as well as SMART Notebook itself seem to be outdated but usable in most cases.
A SMART support employee wrote me that Lumio may be a web based alternative, but it seems to be necessary to have a Google or Microsoft account for that. IMHO a absolute no-go.