<BODY>on the goodwill front, take a few photos and forward those along with your letters to GW corp to your local newspaper. either they will change their ways or people will stop donating ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Mohler <cr33dog@gmail.com> Date: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:40 am Subject: Re: donated computers lab setup To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com> > > Good Will Industries used to slap FC3 on theirs, in Roanoke VA. > Great> people to do so. They'd sell an entire outfit for $100. I > doubt FC5 or > > FC6 would install though. Happy New Year to you, too. Ric > > > I've taken to calling our local GoodWill "IllWill" instead, as they > just chuck 90% of the donated hardware into the trash, and > threaten to > call the cops when I dig it out. The *big* stinker is that they cut > whatever cords they can get their little paws on, so I end up leaving > most of the monitors... > > I've written to corporate a couple of times and never gotten a reply. > > Back to the OP - I also recommend LTSP. I have a pile of "garbage" > P1s and P2's that work just fine as terminals. Once you have the > server set up, adding another terminal is as easy as determining the > NIC's chipset and spitting out a boot floppy a la rom-o-matic.net. > > One major caveat: sound. In theory, it works. In practice, there's > too much lag. > > Chris > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > </BODY>