Am Montag 29 Oktober 2007 schrieb Michael Hanke: > [ I'm not subscribed (yet), please keep me CC'ed ]
Dear Michael, thank you for your intereset in free educational software - and welcome to Debian Edu (in case you didn't know: there is also a mailinglist in German). From what I heard, Debian will very well run on old machines as well - but you might consider replace KDE or Gnome by a lighter desktop environment (such as IceWM). There is also educational live CDs - but taken the weak configuration of your school's machines, installation would be a wise thing to do. How many disk space is there BTW? I recommend a minimum of 4 GB for a full workstation. But if you drop Openoffice and KDE, you will get along with 3 GB. What other plans are there? How about internet usage? As you start setting up a proxy and possibly even user accounts why not take the 1 hour to install a main server including squid? And if you want to save N-1 hours installing your N computers you may consider using the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP). Thus, all desktops look alike and any additional application needs only to be installed once. Kind regards Ralf P.S.: May I ask 2 questions myself? Whereabout is that school (region), and how did you find Debian-Edu?
