On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ugh, that looks to a minimum Pentium III, maybe 256MB of RAM. > > BTW, the reason I brought up the min requirements, and older PCs, is that > I've been involved, together with the Foundation for Media Alternatives > (http://www.fma.ph) and some PLUG members, in efforts to get NGOs to use > Linux. NGOs usually don't have much money and are likely to have old, > donated equipment -- which means sub-Pentium III, maybe even Pentium > classics. In fact, I seem to remember one NGO mentioning that they still > had 486-based PCs. Obviously though, no modern GNU/Linux distro will run on > that, except perhaps in text mode. Or, there's also the ltsp alternative. > Anyway...
I highly recommend the LTSP route for this. The Davao City chamber is similar to what you described above. With just a budget of Php 80,000.00 we were able to buy two new PCs (one server) and two additional clients from second hand stores. We even had change after that. The best thing was making their 486 run faster than it did with Win 3.1. Unfortunately, they decided to junk it after the monitor finally conked out. Holden -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
