old laptops - I need several for grandchildren-no joke.

[Jon Pruente]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Long story snipped to point- My stepdaughter is beginning what will be
>  a very nasty divorce.
>  thus I need to keep my 2 grandkids occupied. Here's the issue. This
>  has a near zero budget- A few bucks here ant there can be pried loose
>  if needed. The goal besides keeping the kids occupied is to show them
>  and all in their external lives that Linux CAN be a primary  Operating
>  System for grade school children. Any donations- offers of cheap
>  stuff- or even practical advice will be appreciated. There is an
>  option of payment for hardware/time helping set this up by me giving
>  you free camping within reason.And yes- that means families too!
>  Details further as needed. Contact me off list as needed.

I haven't had time to play wth it much but Puppy Linux and DSL have
both gotten better in their latest releases.  I ran a previous release
on an old Pentium laptop and it ran OK.  DSL ran really nicely on a P4
class machine I tried a few weeks ago, even with 256MB RAM.  One can
cobble together a super cheap P4 machine at Surplus Exchange nowadays,
but they only really get Pentium and maybe P2 laptops in the used
bins.

Jon.