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Setting up Linux in an Inner City Public School?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-a-bad-idea dept.

Richard Finney asks: "I have a friend who is retired. He was the chief scientist on the Landsat program. Instead of just belting down scotch and cashing social security checks, he is volunteering at Samuel Coleridge Taylor Elementary School #122, in Baltimore. He's trying to set up some old donated computers from the Windows 95 era. Rather than fight with Windows, he's decided to install Linux. How would you set up these systems for these little kids to use and learn about computers using Linux?"

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  1. Re:trade in some of those machines! by ewl1217 · · Score: 3, Funny
    You can also talk to Dell, Apple, Lenovo, Microsoft, et al to see if they'd be interested in donating some machines.
    I'm sure Apple and Microsoft would gladly donate hardware to run Linux on...
  2. Re:INNER CITY KIDS DON'T USE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    INNER CITY KIDS DON'T USE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
    Because you can't steal it.

    I jacked a motherfucking Emacs from a motherfucker, but I couldn't C-X C-c the fuck out fast enuff, so my black nigger ass got busted by the StallMan.