Re: [seul-edu] Draft Review

[Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>]

On Friday 03 May 2002 12:13, Dave Prentice wrote:
> Ed Lawson wrote:
> My school district (New Orleans) turns down any donation less than a 233
> mhz Pentium because older ones won't run the latest version of Windows. I
> have bypassed the district and gotten a number of lesser machines through
> private solicitation, but there is not even a system in place to notify
> interested parties of potential donations. Most of them are probably
> hitting the landfills.

Which reminds me, we should include at least a short sentence about 
environmental issues.

    By facilitating the re-use of computers by schools and charities,
    Linux defers the landfilling or incineration of enormous amounts of
    poisonous chemicals by many years.

Cheers; Leon