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.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Oren Beck orenbeck@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.
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