Bill Mills-Curran said:

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Leon Do wrote:

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:04:16 -0500 From: Leon Do <leondo@lucent.com> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] old PCs

I need some suggestion of what I can do with my 5 old PCs(133MH,16MB or 32M RAM , 859MB Disk).

Thanks a lot

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Leon,

I'm glad you asked...

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You may have read in a recent Boston Globe about Sudanese teenagers who are being hosted by an organization in the US. (Forgive this and future vagueness -- my wife has more accurate info.) These are kids who have grown up without home or family, roaming in groups of kids around Africa.

To make a long story short, some of these kids are here in MA and are in homes, some of which do not have computers. These kids need some computers to do their homework.

Clearly, these kids are NOT techno-geeks, so Linux is probably not a good thing for them to start with. (I hate windows too, but these kids need something that is "standard" for school work.)

Actually, I suspect setting up the system with SO5.2, with everything preloaded, would work as well as anything else, and would not be subject to corruption that Win95/98 has (i.e. user can't kill critical files, without root access). Also not subject to Windows Registry bit-rot. And not require licensing fees (remember, that Windows / Office is NOT free, and I always encourage paying of licensing fees, following of copyright, etc). Another item is that NH currently has a program that takes old computers, has the prisoners at Concord rebuild them into Linux servers, and donates them to charities for servers / workstations. Contact is bobnhlinux@aol.com (Bob Sparks). jeff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Smith Technical Sales Consultant Mission Critical Linux smith@missioncriticallinux.com phone:603.930.9739 fax:978.446.9470 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought for today: YA- abbrev. [Yet Another] In hackish acronyms this almost invariably expands to Yet Another, following the precedent set by Unix yacc(1) (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler). See YABA.