[ale] Donated computers

[KingBahamut]

or edubuntu , which implements LTSP pretty nice from what I understand.

http://www.edubuntu.org/


On 11/16/06, Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/16/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > My kids' daycare was donated about 8+ computers.  Apparently my wife
> > volunteered me to take a look.  Today I looked.  It appears all of these
> > machines are Dell Dimension XPS D333 computers.  The have all the normal
> > features but are PII-333 adn 128m of memory.  Where it counts they seem
> > to be lacking.  IMO these computers would make nice boat anchors since
> > they are heavy and can grab mud easily.
> >
> > My thought is that these computers feel like circa 1998 machines.  I
> > could treat them as such.  They could load Win98 on them and then find
> > educational software from around that time that is compatible and run
> > that.  As long as the machine is good they will be in good shape.
> >
> > I wanted to try the educational version of Ubuntu but that would just
> > require too much memory and CPU.  Even trying to find and get memory for
> > these systems would be a pain.
> >
> > I wish that when people would donate computers they would at least try
> > to donate something they would find worthy for them self.  Don't donate
> > the stuff you consider trash.  I know there is a parable that talks
> > about this.....
> >
>
> Those sound like excellent LTSP terminals. See
> http://k12ltsp.org/contents.html for the LTSP subproject specifically
> for K-12 schools and the like.
>
> -A
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