Hi, On 10/24/2013 09:53 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Our church runs a once a week after school program for the children of > a neighboring elementary school { in U.S. education-speak it is a > "title 1 - severely underprivileged school"}. We run on donated > hardware. Up to now the machines came with misc versions of MS > Windows. A local company will donate several additional machines. Due > to license issues, they will come without Windows. One of their staff > has stated that Linux Mint would be suited for the "obsolete" hardware > being donated and has volunteered to install it on each of those > machines. > > My question: > Is there any reason that a Ubuntu version Mint would be any more > suitable than a custom install of Debian - especially as there is a > choice of kernels? > Question is vague, to a degree intentionally. Where/what should I be > reading? I don't think anyone suggested, but what about DebianEdu [1]/SkoleLinux [2]? There target at an educational environment, i believe they can be adapt to your scenario.
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