On 5/21/05, RB W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for tips to add to my list of things to do to prepare > several laptops I managed to get donated from local universities for > college/sub-college students overseas in Jamaica.
How were you connected to these people? How much communication do you have with them? > The units are PIII 600Mhz, 256Mb RAM, 10Gb HD w/modem jack... no > Ethernet. Win2000 is installed. These units run Knoppix v3.8.1. You're hoping they'll run Knoppix, right? But from CD? Boot from CD everytime? That might be doable, I suppose. If you want them to run Knoppix, why leave Windows 2000 on it? Were I in your situation, I'd probably delete Windows. If they insist on having it, they can put out the money or effort in getting it, you wouldn't be denying them anything, and you'd be 100% legal in every jurisdiction known to mankind. > because a HD install will in all likelihood just get deleted. If I can > make the Knoppix option as viable as possible I may get the recipients > to actually go to the Jamaica LUG and get converted. Yeah. For every problem you pre-emptively quash, the chance of Linux staying goes up by a couple percent. But all of this depends on what kind of relationship you have with the people who will receive the equipment. If they're complete strangers expecting only hardware, then making happylinux makes sense. If there's some prior arrangement, in which they want complete systems, they might be confused and/or upset when "complete system" didn't include Windows. Last thing is: there won't be any power connector or phone jack problems, right? According to one page[1] I found, this is power for these countries: COUNTRY ||| VOLTAGE ||| PLUG Canada ||| 110/220V 60cycles ||| B Jamaica ||| 110/220V 50cycles ||| A & B I include Canada on the assumption that Canada is the same as America, and therefore, what these laptops are likely set up for. [1] http://www.call220.com/Resources/electric_current.htm [2] http://home.cwjamaica.com/content/products_services/data_ip/internet_services/ipass/faq.asp?ID=315#11 > The news of Cuba going to Linux will be an additional assist as the > citizens of 2nd and 3rd world countries pay much more attention to > their peers than we do. For some value of "peer". Are you familiar with how Jamaica views Cuba? -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
