On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Tom Roche <[email protected]> wrote:
> Randal Hale Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:17:54 -0400[2] > > Ms Keith (on this list as of last night and cc'd) has a lab but it is > quickly going out of date with regards to proprietary software. My wish has > been to replace everything with QGIS - GIS is GIS. > > And OS[3] are OS, so maximize the utility of the > > > "older computers" at schools [being used] for learning > > and slap a Linux on them. The OSGeo wiki points to some bundles, including > (e.g.) DebianGIS[4], Enterprise Linux GIS[5], and UbuntuGIS[6] (of which, > IIUC, the latter is the most active). > And sure enough, there are Linux distributions designed to work well on (very) low-end hardware, for example Lubuntu [1] and Xubuntu [2]. [1] http://lubuntu.net/ [2] http://xubuntu.org/
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