On 10/24/2013 04:53 PM, 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
>
>
You should consider an os using the kde desktop, since it is quite
similar to Windows, which is what most people are accustomed to.
--doug
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