On 2013-10-24 15:53 -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?
Don't know the answer to your question but have you considered
using those PCs as disk-less X terminals using LTSP or similar ?
That might be easier to admin.
(Sent from an LTSP client.)
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