Steve,<br><br>If your looking for kit as well then you might want to consider:<br><a href="http://www.aleutia.com/">http://www.aleutia.com/</a><br><a href="http://fit-pc.co.uk/">http://fit-pc.co.uk/</a><br><br>All seam to be low power, enough RAM and CPU to do everyday tasks.<br>
<br>The Aleutia U6 might be most suited for your needs, its low power and allows 6 users their own monitor/keyboard/mouse all via a single pc, so will save you time administration 6 individual pc's.<br><br>The only OS support I've heard about was Ubuntu support from Canonical. I've not used any myself so can't personally recommend.<br>
<br>John<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/30 Steve Redshaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sr@steveredshaw.idps.co.uk">sr@steveredshaw.idps.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We are in the early stages of planning a community computer access facility for our village. It would provide internet access, supervised sessions and more general tuition for people who wanted to access services through the internet or learn to do more on their own computers. We are exploring grant funding to start up and maintain this.<br>
<br>As a fairly new convert to Linux, I am keen to use Linux as the operating system for the several laptops available for people to use. Several reasons for this;<br><ul><li>it gives people an experience other than Microsoft windows</li>
<li>it gives access to Open Source software</li><li>it is not so vulnerable to viruses</li><li>all the common computer tasks, particularly online ones, can be accomplished equally as well through Linux</li><li>the windows environment provided by KDE is very close to Windows and would not pose any difficulties in use for those only familiar with Windows</li>
<li>I don't fancy being an unpaid Microsoft rep</li><li>(it may be practical to consider dual-boot machines to facilitate tuition on particular programs people run on their own computers as they will almose certainly be running Windows!)<br>
</li></ul>I now use Linux nearly all the time (there are a few programs that I use that I can only get to run under Windows) and find the support from forums (I use Mandriva 2010), when something goes wrong or I need to know something new, is very good. Where we would need support is with technical matters (setting up and maintaining a small network of laptops).<br>
<br>So I have a couple of requests;<br><br>Any comments on the proposals so far, use of Linux as OS etc, would be gratefully received.<br>Where can we get good technical support on a commercial basis (we are in the Midhurst area)?<br>
<br>thanks<br><font color="#888888">Steve Redshaw<br><br>
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