[dundee] Linux for low spec PCs

[Angie Wilson]

Thanks for all the replies, I'll try a few of those soon :) re: RAM - I 
appreciate more is better, but with the £100 limit 128 seems to be all 
we can get - maybe we can push for slightly more expensive laptops.

re: Lee - free broadband sounds very interesting, please tell me more..

re: Owen - there's no website for the project it's something we're doing 
with in the Council (Community Information Team) funded by Working for 
Families. We've (myself and a colleague) been training mainly single 
parents for a while now and thought some would benefit from a chance to 
practice at home - cheap, hopefully hard to mess up laptops seemed a 
good idea and we thought less can go wrong with Linux *fingers crossed*

- Angie

angie at nirvana.me.uk wrote:

> Hi,
>   Just wondering if anyone could recommend a Linux distro. for low  
> spec refurbished laptops - a sample spec would be:
>
> IBM Thinkpad - Intel P2 300 128MB 3GB.
>
> The background is we're looking to get refurbished laptops for 
> £100ish  and set them up for low income families who are doing their 
> ECDL to  borrow - other than Internet access all we need to run on 
> them is  OpenOffice.org.
> Ideally we'd like to be able to create accounts so they can't delete  
> things they shouldn't.
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
>  - Angie
>
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