Hey guys, We are distributing a k12ltsp lab to Broadmoor High School on December 1st. We would love it if there were one or two of you guys that would be willing to correspond with the teacher there to assist her with the configuration and maintenance of the lab and possibly help set it up. The teacher is Alicia Vidaurreta, and her email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those that would like to help, please contact her or myself at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thank-you to those of you that came to our "No Computer Should Go To Waste" recycling day on November the 6th. We were able to collect ten 24 foot truckloads, or 72 Tons of computer equipment for recycling that would have gone to a landfill otherwise. I have a question for you guys: what type of Linux would be the most user friendly for low-income families? Many of these people have no idea how to use a computer, and we are trying to bridge that gap. Since the price of windows would make the computer out of the price range of this group, we are going to install Linux. Low income families will receive a 15-17" monitor, a Pentium 233Mhz, 64MB RAM, 2.5 GB hard drive with a Linux OS, and Open Office installed. They will be able to purchase these for around $25-$30. We are ready to roll out with these units as soon as we can figure out which Linux OS to install. We investigated using red hat, but I couldn't locate a download that was free. Any input or suggestions that you guys might have would be quite welcome. David Grant Director, Computers for Louisiana's Kids (CLK) A Program of Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800 St Philip st Baton Rouge, LA 70802 225-379-3577 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20041122/a4975289/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 22 11:35:43 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richards Jr, Edward C.) Date: Mon Nov 22 11:31:35 2004 Subject: [brlug-general] Distribution of linux to the masses Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-----Original Message----- From: David Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [brlug-general] Distribution of linux to the masses Hey guys, I have a question for you guys: what type of Linux would be the most user friendly for low-income families? Many of these people have no idea how to use a computer, and we are trying to bridge that gap. Since the price of windows would make the computer out of the price range of this group, we are going to install Linux. Low income families will receive a 15-17" monitor, a Pentium 233Mhz, 64MB RAM, 2.5 GB hard drive with a Linux OS, and Open Office installed. They will be able to purchase these for around $25-$30. We are ready to roll out with these units as soon as we can figure out which Linux OS to install. We investigated using red hat, but I couldn't locate a download that was free. Any input or suggestions that you guys might have would be quite welcome. David Grant Director, Computers for Louisiana's Kids (CLK) A Program of Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800 St Philip st Baton Rouge, LA 70802 225-379-3577 Hi David, As a Window$ refugee that has been using Linux on the desktop for a little over two years now and exclusively on my personal machines for about a year, I highly recommend the Xandros Desktop 2.0 Open Circulation Edition ( www.xandros.com <http://www.xandros.com/> ). It is completely free for personal use and is, by far and away, the easiest Linux for someone moving away from Window$ to transition to Linux. The distro is completely GUI driven and the use of the commend line is NOT required unless the user just wants to invoke it. If you would like to have a (or several) copies, please give me a call. I have a number of them here at my office as well as some at home. My cell # is 964-2606. I will be glad to drop them by for you as time permits. 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URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20041122/1bbaffb9/attachment-0001.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 22 11:33:36 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Baudouin, Andrew) Date: Mon Nov 22 11:33:47 2004 Subject: [brlug-general] Distribution of linux to the masses Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would venture to say that most of the recent distributions will not work very well on that configuration of PC. OpenOffice probably won't work that well with only 64 MB of RAM installed. Gnome 2 and KDE3 realistically require 1GHZ+. Having said that, if that PC configuration is hard and fast take a look at Damn Small Linux, which is optimized to run on 64MB computers. It ran well on my 533mhz laptop with 64MB of ram installed. Again, I must stress that OpenOffice will not run very well if at all with computers having below 256MB of RAM installed. In my opinion, especially if you are looking to recreate a Windows look and feel, these computers are vastly underpowered to run anything that looks pretty (Gnome/ KDE). You will be stuck with fluxbox, fvwm or the like. Andrew Baudouin Applications Programmer AWC, Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _____ From: David Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [brlug-general] Distribution of linux to the masses Hey guys, We are distributing a k12ltsp lab to Broadmoor High School on December 1st. We would love it if there were one or two of you guys that would be willing to correspond with the teacher there to assist her with the configuration and maintenance of the lab and possibly help set it up. The teacher is Alicia Vidaurreta, and her email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Those that would like to help, please contact her or myself at [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . Thank-you to those of you that came to our "No Computer Should Go To Waste" recycling day on November the 6th. We were able to collect ten 24 foot truckloads, or 72 Tons of computer equipment for recycling that would have gone to a landfill otherwise. I have a question for you guys: what type of Linux would be the most user friendly for low-income families? Many of these people have no idea how to use a computer, and we are trying to bridge that gap. Since the price of windows would make the computer out of the price range of this group, we are going to install Linux. Low income families will receive a 15-17" monitor, a Pentium 233Mhz, 64MB RAM, 2.5 GB hard drive with a Linux OS, and Open Office installed. They will be able to purchase these for around $25-$30. We are ready to roll out with these units as soon as we can figure out which Linux OS to install. We investigated using red hat, but I couldn't locate a download that was free. Any input or suggestions that you guys might have would be quite welcome. David Grant Director, Computers for Louisiana's Kids (CLK) A Program of Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800 St Philip st Baton Rouge, LA 70802 225-379-3577 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20041122/5554dfe5/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 22 11:37:02 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nashid Hasan) Date: Mon Nov 22 11:36:57 2004 Subject: [brlug-general] Distribution of linux to the masses In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would suggest Suse Linux Personal 9.1. It can be downloaded for free from http://suse.lsu.edu Redhat's free version is called Fedora which is in version 3. You can download it from fedora.redhat.com. However, I suggest Suse as it seems to be more user-friendly than Fedora. Thanks, Nash David Grant wrote: > Hey guys, > > We are distributing a k12ltsp lab to Broadmoor High School on December > 1^st . We would love it if there were one or two of you guys that > would be willing to correspond with the teacher there to assist her > with the configuration and maintenance of the lab and possibly help > set it up. The teacher is Alicia Vidaurreta, and her email is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ > > Those that would like to help, please contact her or myself at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . Thank-you to those of you > that came to our ?No Computer Should Go To Waste? recycling day on > November the 6^th . We were able to collect ten 24 foot truckloads, or > 72 Tons of computer equipment for recycling that would have gone to a > landfill otherwise. > > I have a question for you guys: what type of Linux would be the most > user friendly for low-income families? Many of these people have no > idea how to use a computer, and we are trying to bridge that gap. > Since the price of windows would make the computer out of the price > range of this group, we are going to install Linux. Low income > families will receive a 15-17? monitor, a Pentium 233Mhz, 64MB RAM, > 2.5 GB hard drive with a Linux OS, and Open Office installed. They > will be able to purchase these for around $25-$30. We are ready to > roll out with these units as soon as we can figure out which Linux OS > to install. We investigated using red hat, but I couldn?t locate a > download that was free. Any input or suggestions that you guys might > have would be quite welcome. > > David Grant > > Director, Computers for Louisiana's Kids (CLK) > > A Program of Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 800 St Philip st > > Baton Rouge, LA 70802 > > 225-379-3577 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
