On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:28, you wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > I have offered our services to install a Linux distro on two identical > > machines for the Spreydon Baptist Pre-School on that evening. These are > > the machines which will be used by the children. Suggestions as to what > > child oriented packages should go into the software load, and a volunteer > > to do that would be much appreciated. Somebody from there will be > > bringing the machines etc. > > > > I have not heard anything more about this one. They may or not be coming. > > I will have a Knoppix with the install script and the stickers program > > ready in case they turn up. Anybody else got any good ideas about KidWare > > for pre-schoolers? > > Ken McAllister comments: Alison told me at the time that "someone from > the Club would arrange to get the children's machines working." This > was not quite what CS said above. It's a rough enough correlation to my understanding of the arrangement.
> "Can I take the machines for you?" I asked Alison yesterday (Sunday). > She told me that no machines need be dealt with now for the children, Do they need a visit from the BSA? > thanks, and that the officeware for the staff is more important. It > seems - I am guessing - that people around Alison have not been wholly > Linux-oriented. She is not Linux oriented in the very least. > OSS nil, Microsoft nil. Will this match go into extra time, or shall we > default gracefully? The latter, the last thing we, or Linux generally, need is to try to support users who are resentful of having it forced on them. > Did we establish that OpenOffice would, or > wouldn't, run on any two of these? OpenOffice won't run satisfactorily in a machine with less than 128 Mbytes of memory. > Pentium I, 133 Mhz, 64 Mb, no HD, no floppy, no CD Off to Molten Media. > Pentium I, 133 Mhz, 32 Mb If they get networked, I'd suggest this one as a firewall. Take the RAM out of the other one above. > Pentium II, 233 Mhz, 64 Mb > Pentium II, 233 Mhz, 64 Mb (that makes two) I thought these two for the Children. > Pentium III, speed not noted, no Ram Therefore stuffed? Off to Molten Media. > Pentium III, 550 Mhz, 128 Mb Open office would run well on this P III, but not the ones above. > Scanner and assorted printers More details required to interface these. -- Christopher Sawtell.
