On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 09:21 -0700, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > That's great! Sounds a lot like what Partimus.org (which Grant, myself > and others up here are working with) is doing for the bay area.
I only had time to briefly scan the site while on break at work, but it looks like a really valuable resource. I'm not surprised to see Cathy Malmrose in charge--she does really great work at ZaReason. > The advice about minimum system requirements reminded me of a > conversation we had recently on one of the lists regarding quality of > hardware and the experience of using Ubuntu. Partimus itself won't > accept anything under a Pentium 4 w/ 512M of ram (and 1G of RAM is > preferred) for running Ubuntu, otherwise it'll be a sub-optimal > experience and people will equate Ubuntu with "not as good" or "the > slow, cheap alternative" and that doesn't help anyone. Yes, I told them that 384 MB was the absolute minimum and 512 MB was greatly to be preferred. It sounded like they could handle 512 but we'll come back to that soon. > Plus, most > recently it's come to our attention that hardware that looks like junk > will be treated like junk by the kids, so having hardware that looks > nice whenever possible improves how much policing of hardware the > teachers have to do. Well, these computers will be going directly to the students, so this is not going to be as big a problem as it would be for a school lab, but while I've observed the same thing, I've forgotten it in my many years away from educational Information Technology. :) I'll be sure to mention it, although the computers do look pretty decent. The real problem they have is monitors... no one wants a CRT which are virtually free and LCDs are very expensive. But that's not our focus--meanwhile I recommended Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and will be helping to make sure the software is as nice as possible. -- Nathan Haines <[email protected]> Ubuntu California Local Community Team -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
