[K12OSN] Free computers for kids

[Tom Brown]

I strongly encourage you to check out Vector Linux 3.2. It works very well 
on low resource boxes and has well chosen apps and desktop managers. For 
400+ MHz boxes Vector SOHO is good. VL 4.0 and SOHO want more RAM and HD 
than VL 3.2. Terrell's RAM suggestion for OO.org is on the money.

Tom

At 01:52 PM 3/27/04 -0500, you wrote:


>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
>
>
>--
>Anthony Baldwin
>http://www.School-Library.net
>Freedom to Learn!
>
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