[Sussex] Community computer access facility

[John Patrick]

Steve,

If your looking for kit as well then you might want to consider:
http://www.aleutia.com/
http://fit-pc.co.uk/

All seam to be low power, enough RAM and CPU to do everyday tasks.

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.

The only OS support I've heard about was Ubuntu support from Canonical. I've
not used any myself so can't personally recommend.

John


2009/11/30 Steve Redshaw <sr at steveredshaw.idps.co.uk>

> 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.
>
> 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;
>
>    - it gives people an experience other than Microsoft windows
>    - it gives access to Open Source software
>    - it is not so vulnerable to viruses
>    - all the common computer tasks, particularly online ones, can be
>    accomplished equally as well through Linux
>    - 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
>    - I don't fancy being an unpaid Microsoft rep
>    - (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!)
>
> 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).
>
> So I have a couple of requests;
>
> Any comments on the proposals so far, use of Linux as OS etc, would be
> gratefully received.
> Where can we get good technical support on a commercial basis (we are in
> the Midhurst area)?
>
> thanks
> Steve Redshaw
>
>
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