scruie
4th March 2008, 17:50
Recently been donated a half a dozen PCs with the following specc's or similar;
CPU: P4 2ghz or AMD equivalent.
RAM: 512MB Min.
HDD: 20-30Gig
Graphics: on-board to Geforce 440MX
I'm about to donate these machines to a local charity which caters for children (ages 2-16 years). Refurbishing the machines with Windows software is not an option as I'd lose to much money. This is charity after all.
At a recent PC Club meeting that I run. I showed off an installation of Ubuntu with some of the children's education software installed; TuxPaint was a real hit with the younger children as well one of the reading tools. Amazing how quickly these kids picked up how to use the software - I had so many issues just getting some of them installed correctly.
Anyway, the gist of all this is that the charity is interested in using Linux - the saving in money is a real boon for them. Question is, do we use Ubuntu and then install the GCompris afterwards or just go down the Edubuntu route which has everything working out of the box?
CPU: P4 2ghz or AMD equivalent.
RAM: 512MB Min.
HDD: 20-30Gig
Graphics: on-board to Geforce 440MX
I'm about to donate these machines to a local charity which caters for children (ages 2-16 years). Refurbishing the machines with Windows software is not an option as I'd lose to much money. This is charity after all.
At a recent PC Club meeting that I run. I showed off an installation of Ubuntu with some of the children's education software installed; TuxPaint was a real hit with the younger children as well one of the reading tools. Amazing how quickly these kids picked up how to use the software - I had so many issues just getting some of them installed correctly.
Anyway, the gist of all this is that the charity is interested in using Linux - the saving in money is a real boon for them. Question is, do we use Ubuntu and then install the GCompris afterwards or just go down the Edubuntu route which has everything working out of the box?