I'm not going to comment on how well this device would actually work in practice. I would however like to point out that it is largely believed to be illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk (and in most places, it's true). San Francisco comes to mind, for example. It's illegal where I live as well, although it's rather selectively enforced.
As a cyclist, I can unfortunately attest that the majority of street riders are indeed idiots. To be fair however, that's just as true for motorists.;)
If it's that wide of a scale I'd get a distro with support. Red Hat, SuSe or Unbuntu are rather nice distro's of that nature. With those specs you'll want a lighter interface, XFCE would do nicely. Make sure the basic things are installed, firefox, evolution, OpenOffice.org and the like.
I had a similar setup running RedHat in a school lab. Ran well and the students migrated almost effortlessly. Tried with Debian and Fedora with the same results. It shouldn't be too difficult to show the power.
If you want to have some educational tools on there, try having a few CAD programs, maybe video editing (cinelerra) and I'd suggest Blender 3D. Blender is a big draw to people. At least it was in my lab. Rendering is faster in linux anyway (compared to windows. At least in my experience. I don't know about Mac's.)
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I'm not going to comment on how well this device would actually work in practice. I would however like to point out that it is largely believed to be illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk (and in most places, it's true). San Francisco comes to mind, for example. It's illegal where I live as well, although it's rather selectively enforced.
As a cyclist, I can unfortunately attest that the majority of street riders are indeed idiots. To be fair however, that's just as true for motorists. ;)
More of the same, move along.
*sings* Oh give me the bitboys and free my soul...
If it's that wide of a scale I'd get a distro with support. Red Hat, SuSe or Unbuntu are rather nice distro's of that nature. With those specs you'll want a lighter interface, XFCE would do nicely. Make sure the basic things are installed, firefox, evolution, OpenOffice.org and the like.
I had a similar setup running RedHat in a school lab. Ran well and the students migrated almost effortlessly. Tried with Debian and Fedora with the same results. It shouldn't be too difficult to show the power.
If you want to have some educational tools on there, try having a few CAD programs, maybe video editing (cinelerra) and I'd suggest Blender 3D. Blender is a big draw to people. At least it was in my lab. Rendering is faster in linux anyway (compared to windows. At least in my experience. I don't know about Mac's.)