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Robert Citek wrote: | | On Tuesday, Feb 8, 2005, at 12:08 US/Central, JT Moree wrote: | |> Actually, I am in charge of the KIDS For cancer laptop project at WITS. |> ~ We are putting Debian sarge with tons of the games in debian on |> P100-200 class laptops running icewm. (jason is helping quite a bit |> too).
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I chose Debian bc installing tons of software is easy and it works fairly well on old hardware.
We have elected to stick with Pentium of any class. the amount of work involved in installing (and opening) on most 386, 486 is HUGE. I do have a 286 laptop that I want to put in the museum. (if they ever set one up).
Most laptops are coming into wits without power adapters. THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM. Without the proper adapter the machine is worthless. Are we going to spend $70 on a universal adapter for a Pentium 100 laptop so that we can give it to someone? It doesn't seem worth it.
Some of laptops are coming in stripped of RAM and hard drives. That also makes them useless. SODimms are not as interchangeable and abundant as regular ram. it's alot harder to canibalize one laptop to make another work.
The laptops are used for normal wits operations. volunteers and staff are getting more powerful ones as part of the program and the slower ones are going to my project.
The laptops for kids project: I work on this project 1 day per month. The first Saturday of each month.
Jason and I have an adapter to hook up laptop hard drives to a desktop. ~ we dump an image onto the drive and put it back into a laptop. hoping it will work. last weekend it worked out of the box--even sound--which is amazing for debian (based on my past experience) we are using testing which is undergoing alot of changes lately.
I install a firewall as a matter of principle even though the machines are noT likely to go on a network.
We have two adapters and I need to setup another location so that multiple people can work. I also need to train or get someone with Linux experience if this project is going to produce more than 2 laptops per month. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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