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

["R. Scott Belford" <scott@xxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Howard wrote:
> 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?

Aloha Daniel

For our Computer Guts program, we use Edubuntu.  It meets all the 
above-stated needs.

> Daniel

--scott

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