> I know we've talked about this before, but here's a different take.  A 
> faculty member here teaches a computer/networking course to K-12 teachers.  
> All agree that it would be beneficial and cost effective to start using 
> more Linux and less MS in K-12.  The problem is some schools don't have 
> lots of money for computers, and are currently still running Pentium 1 
> class systems with 16m or 32m memory.

> With this type of system, they'd like a GUI and a basic word processor.  
> Obvious KDE/Gnome or Openoffice is out of the question.  Graphical install 
> would be nice, but not required.  Anyone have any suggestions or 
> experience with this?

Debian Stable.  Install a window manager like WindowMaker or Blackbox 
and then pick a word processor like Abiword.

I also like the idea that someone else put forward of using them as thin 
clients.

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