Hi, Mabe we could integrate this somehow with Ubuntu-UK? Im guessing that you will only work locally and if we created some sort of integration then we could collaborate with other Charities and people across the country.
On 1/4/07, George MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run a small charity (www.clacksnet.org.uk) and we are about to start a > scheme where local community groups, charities and the low waged can get a > fully functioning PC with Ubuntu inatalled as well as all the useual Open > Source s/w for a small donation. The idea came about as I work at the > University of Stirling which has a fairly high turnaround of PCs and as they > have to pay for disposal it's better for them to donate them to my charity. > We are starting small at first with only PCs from my own departmant and if > this goes well I'll approach the desktop support team with a proposal. I > only take fully operational Pentium 2 or above systems and agree to wipe the > HDD. I've found P2s run very well on Ubuntu 6.06 and P3s are still OK with > 6.1. I also found that Xubuntu is more suitable for some laptops (Thinkpads) > than Ubuntu. > Cheers > George -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
