[K12OSN] Free computers for kids

[anthony baldwin]

Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
> The machines you're talking about sound like they'd also make excellent 
> LTSP clients!  :-)
> 
> On machines that small, if you're doing standalone OS installs, I'd 
> recommend a lighterweight distro than Red Hat or SuSE.  I've found 
> Vector Linux and Peanut Linux to be good for this.  They don't take up a 
> bunch of space on the disk, either (less than 800MB for the whole 
> thing).  Would this be an option in your case?
> 
> I'll warn you, though:  on anything with less than 256MB DRAM, 
> OpenOffice.org (any version) is going to be S-L-O-W, be you running it 
> on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, or even (gasp!) Windows 2K/XP.  The kids are much 
> better off using apps like AbiWord and Gnumeric on such boxes anyway; 
> they're lightweight, functional, and reasonably quick.
> 
> --TP

On faster machines, like the 400mhz I took to school already, I'll stick 
to K12 and RH, of course.  The 400mhz is still pretty darned slow 
loading OOo.  This machine I'm working on now doesn't seem to want to 
load a full distro, however, so I just downloaded Deli Linux, and I'm 
giong to try that.  I had tried RH with Rule/slinky, but I couldn't get 
it to run X.

tony

> 
> anthony baldwin wrote:
> 
>> Check this out:
>> School-Library.net's Free 2 Learn Project
>> Free computers for students
>> http://free2learn.school-library.net


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Anthony Baldwin
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