Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
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
Use a Debian 6 (Squeeze) Live CD to check that they will run Linux
and to establish how much memory there is in them.
I like people who agree with me ;)
I have Live CD's of both Squeeze and Wheezy.
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.
On my personal machines I currently have 6.0.5 with Gnome and/or
7.1 with XFCE.
An expert install will give you a fairly good start.
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Hope this helps,
AndyC
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