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I think the point here is not "what is the best distro to use?" but is there currently software appropriate for the age range in question. The answer is yes and no. Yes there is a limited amount of software, but of course more is available for windows.
personally as a software developer I would look more towards the non-X spectrum with these 486's as they will run quite slowly with X. You might look into running FreeDos (the operating system) or DosEmu under linux without X. Some of the best Educational software was written for Dos, not Windows, and up until a couple years ago most of the good stuff was still Dos software. Or if you feel like playing with code you could write your own console linux apps.
While I don't think that Clinton's musical tastes are typical of Slashdot users, I do know that there is a growing group of us out there. I think to say that Clinton is a typical Slashdot user is probably quite inaccurate.
I would also like to say that as a visibly "extreme" punk rocker the geek community can look at me just as scournfully as the rest of the world. I was the co-founder of a LUG, and always felt that some people did not come back because of me. I have also visited other LUGs and experienced some odd looks... "you don't belong here".
I think most "geeks" are accepting of anyone, but there is definately an element of "geeks don't look like you" in the community.
If you are interested in punk and unix, check out http://www.unixpunx.org
and #unixpunx on irc.unixpunx.org or efnet.
Regardless of the intent, the web has obviously become a segregated place. I am the manager of the programming department for an internet startup. I decided to get new boxes for myself and the other programmer. Faced with the situation of working on a linux workstation, but needing to test on mac and windows in IE and Netscape for full compatability here is my solution:
Each programmer gets a pc running linux and VMWARE. The pc is a AMD K7 700mhz with 512mb of pc100 dimms. 7200rpm 20gb hd and 32mb matrox g400 graphics card. This allows the programmer to run as many versions of windows, beos, or *nix as deemed necessarry and still develop in the preferred linux environment.
as for the macintosh one G4 400mhz with 256mb of ram will be used for shared testing.
while all of the other programmers will be doing web-based, i will be using these systems to develop voice over IP. This type of setup should be extremely useful, especially for testing the networking protocols between virtual machines.
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I think the point here is not "what is the best distro to use?" but is there currently software appropriate for the age range in question. The answer is yes and no. Yes there is a limited amount of software, but of course more is available for windows.
personally as a software developer I would look more towards the non-X spectrum with these 486's as they will run quite slowly with X. You might look into running FreeDos (the operating system) or DosEmu under linux without X. Some of the best Educational software was written for Dos, not Windows, and up until a couple years ago most of the good stuff was still Dos software. Or if you feel like playing with code you could write your own console linux apps.
While I don't think that Clinton's musical tastes are typical of Slashdot users, I do know that there is a growing group of us out there. I think to say that Clinton is a typical Slashdot user is probably quite inaccurate.
I would also like to say that as a visibly "extreme" punk rocker the geek community can look at me just as scournfully as the rest of the world. I was the co-founder of a LUG, and always felt that some people did not come back because of me. I have also visited other LUGs and experienced some odd looks... "you don't belong here".
I think most "geeks" are accepting of anyone, but there is definately an element of "geeks don't look like you" in the community.
If you are interested in punk and unix, check out http://www.unixpunx.org
and #unixpunx on irc.unixpunx.org or efnet.
Regardless of the intent, the web has obviously become a segregated place. I am the manager of the programming department for an internet startup. I decided to get new boxes for myself and the other programmer. Faced with the situation of working on a linux workstation, but needing to test on mac and windows in IE and Netscape for full compatability here is my solution:
Each programmer gets a pc running linux and VMWARE. The pc is a AMD K7 700mhz with 512mb of pc100 dimms. 7200rpm 20gb hd and 32mb matrox g400 graphics card. This allows the programmer to run as many versions of windows, beos, or *nix as deemed necessarry and still develop in the preferred linux environment.
as for the macintosh one G4 400mhz with 256mb of ram will be used for shared testing.
while all of the other programmers will be doing web-based, i will be using these systems to develop voice over IP. This type of setup should be extremely useful, especially for testing the networking protocols between virtual machines.
hope all that helps.