I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this question, but it certainly
fits into the edu-sig realm ;-)
I will be sponsoring a high school computer programming club again this year.
I get older computers donated to me quite often, most in the Pentium3 range.
Often they have a crippled version of Windows on them, but no restore disks,
etc. Also, most of these computers will NOT be hooked up to the internet.
What I'd like to do is put a simpler LINUX distro on them (MepisLite is my
current favorite for these situations), and then get Python up and running with
IDLE working.
But it's not easy! I don't know of a distro yet that comes with a working IDLE
installed. Whenever I've done the source file dance ("./configure, make, make
install") with newer versions of Python, I get the common PYTHONHOME and
PYTHONPATH problems and also can't get IDLE to work.
Any suggestions or advice?
Richard
P.S. I know this sounds like a technical question for a n00b forum, but the
context of this problem (I'm a teacher trying to set up some convenient Python
boxes for my students to use) made me think it might be appropriate here. If
not, I apologize in advance. I am, btw, getting our PCs in the computer lab
set up with Python (and IDLE) running on Windows, I just wanted to put these
donated comps to good use....
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