On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:53:02PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Our church runs a once a week after school program for the children
> of a neighboring elementary school { in U.S. education-speak it is a
> "title 1 - severely underprivileged school"}. We run on donated
> hardware. Up to now the machines came with misc versions of MS
> Windows. A local company will donate several additional machines.
> Due to license issues, they will come without Windows. One of their
> staff has stated that Linux Mint would be suited for the "obsolete"
> hardware being donated and has volunteered to install it on each of
> those machines.
>
> My question:
> Is there any reason that a Ubuntu version Mint would be any more
> suitable than a custom install of Debian - especially as there is a
> choice of kernels?
> Question is vague, to a degree intentionally. Where/what should I be
> reading?
>
> P.S.
> There *WAS* a reason for some of my weird question of last year or
> more ;/
> I saw this on the horizon. Just did not know EXACT form it would
> take :}
>
> TIA
>
>
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Use a Debian 6 (Squeeze) Live CD to check that they will run Linux
and to establish how much memory there is in them.
Debian 7 is really good and useful and the installer is easy: you might
want to install a lightweight desktop environment like LXDE / XFCE if
there's very litle memory - otherwise install Debian 6 on them and you'll
get another couple of years worth of life out of them.
An expert install will give you a fairly good start.
Hope this helps,
AndyC
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