I am looking to see if I can round up some not too obsolete, but usable
computer parts to ship to my nephew in the Philippines. He runs the
computer lab a Cagayan De Oro College, but his wife teaches at the rural
Dumerait Public Elementary School in Balingasag, Philippines.
They can't be at the point that they aren't worth shipping, but my
nephew is good at cobbling together systems and he could do some things
with them.
I can ship them for $35 for a box so heavy that it takes two people to
lift. We will have to disasemble the computers to keep the customs
inspectors from shipping them, and ship them in multiple boxes. The
shipping is on me. We will need to tag the parts to facilitate my
nephew putting them back together.
I think that the minimum you need to install Edubuntu is only a pentium
II processor, and 256K of memory, and it would fit on a ten gig hard
drive. I am not sure of that.
There are no telephones or internet access in the village, but I'll bet
that somewhere in the third world you can still download six or eight CD
distros, and they could be updated that way.
I visited the school a couple of years ago. There was no student work
on the bulletin boards because they had no paper. Although the kids
speak Visayan, a form of Filipino, English is the business language of
the Philippines and English language content would be fine.
Contact me off post with what you have. The $35 is a special deal that
could end at any time.
Mark Wallace
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