Re: [school-discuss] recommended distro of Linux for PIII/600 MHz older PCs

[Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx>]

I believe this is Brandon School Division in Atlanta Georgia.




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> I am making the assumption that this is Brandon Manitoba.  Is this
> correct?  If so are you intere3sted in coming to Edmonton to speak to the
> Computer Teachers
> conference early next spring?
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> Quoting Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> Another thing we're contemplating at Brandon when we get all new thin
>> clients as part of the district pilot rollout of K12LTSP is to take
>> some of the existing systems that are PIII/600 MHz or better, install a
>>  distro of Linux, and donate them to Brandon families that don't have
>> a computer at home, or don't have one the kids can use.  Can anyone
>> recommend a distro of Linux that would be fast enough on these older
>> PCs, yet could still run Firefox, OpenOffice, Tuxtypes, etc.
>> reasonably well?
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>> Daniel
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>> Daniel Howard
>> President and CEO
>> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
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