Den Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:13:21 -0800 skrev pg:
> There are several problems that we are facing here:
>
> A) Everything we have are donated stuffs. All the computers are donated,
> actually, they are computers that people throw away. We got them for
> free, fix them up as well as we could, and we can only find 256MB of RAM
> for each of them.
This is not a problem for win2k, I'd run win2k on a 256MB machine for
several years and it worked perfectly. Lack of licenses is a bigger
problem.
> B) Due to the limited RAM, we can't run any other OS than Win98SE or
> WinME. Plus, we do not want to infringe on any copyright issue. We got a
> pile of old Win98SE genuine MS CDs, so we kinda like like have no other
> choice but to use Win98SE.
Or you can use on of the free ones, which is even better from several
standpoints (like me generally believing in the whole "free as in speech"
thing). You can get Ubuntu install CDs ****pped to you for free, and if
you mention how you want to use them, it's not entirely unlikely that
you'll get extra help.
> C) This entire operation runs on a very very tight budget. These are the
> children that people don't care about. They all come from poverty
> stricken families, and they are at the edge of becoming street kids.
> What we do there is to keep them in school, provide them with some
> incentives to keep learning, keep exploring, etc.
This is why any of Win9x (Me included) is the worst possible choice. It
will provide them with frustration, not incentive.
> D) We do not have any license to run Win2000 or WinXP, and we do not
> have the money to buy them either. On the Linux side, so far I am still
> trying to learn Linux, I can set up a system, just a base system.
> Installing packages, on the other hand, is still too much for me.
Again, I heartily recommend Ubuntu. It's close to being as easy to
install as it gets. Administration is fairly easy as well.
>> I wonder if OLPC's Sugar is currently ****table to anything besides XOs,
>> it's designed exactly for the type of usage you have, so it'd be a
>> perfect fit.
>
> See, even OLPC is a luxury for us. Do you know what USD100 can buy here?
> Remember that this is a third world country, and our conversion rate is
> 3.3 to 1. USD100 is 330 of our local currency here, and this can buy A
> LOT OF STUFFS !
Sugar is the custom-made software that makes up the user environment that
runs on OLPC. I wasn't referring to the hardware here. As it was designed
to be run by kids who have never before seen a computer, on machines with
hardly any computing power, it'd fit your needs perfectly, provided you
can run it on stock PCs. Which I don't know if you can.
Cheers,
Maciej
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