Many of these computers have OEM licenses for windows.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Omar Rassi <[email protected]> wrote: > Alright so there has been some considerable time since all those computers > came in and not much has happened with them, so I came up with an idea for > them that would be very nice to have at the new space. I love doing > computer stuff for Synhak, I really can't stop myself even if I try... > > I'd like to set up one laptop per "area" (i.e. one laptop for the craft > room, one for the machine shop, one for the electonics lab, etc.) This way > you won't need to stop and walk away to go to the computers if you need to > look up something, they don't need a large area for set up and aren't > tethered to one corner. I still plan to set up at least two desktops in a > common area for public use with our current Windows licenses installed so > anyone that uses them will be comfortable. I will install on these laptops > Fedora 20 KDE unless a different OS is requested by at least 3 different > members. The reason for this OS choice is the Synhak sysadmins are most > familiar with Fedora and Windows. If a Windows OS is requested, we'll have > to vote on a proposal to spend the cash on that ($12 Admin fee from > techsoup.org per license, and before you ask, yes the company checks out > and its legit). > > As far as the laptops go, they need 2.5" SATA hard drives. I have two I > can give to synhak, AND, the big kicker here is power supplies for them. > They are a little less than $30 new at Tigerdirect > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7847505&CatId=608 > > Tomorrow I'll be getting together a list of how many hard drives and power > adapters we'll actually need to accomplish this goal. If it can met by > donations that would be great, if not as stated earlier, a proposal to > spend the money would need to be voted on. I'm estimating it would take me > about 3 to 6 months to complete this since that's how long it took me to > get things set up the last time I did this with the desktops. > > Or if no one likes this idea or finds it redundant since we have a > computer lab with desktops, then no movement will take place on this. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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