[wellylug] A little project....

[Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group]

Tom

Yes they are Pentium 'One'  machines.

The general requirements are for basic office tasks, word processing, 
spreadsheets and for email and possibly web browsing. An example I have 
just had is the North Wellington Youth Project which currently has a 
paper based database system, they could really do with email, word 
processing and a simple database solution.

I think we need:
1) a nice lightweight stand alone setup...and...
2) a terminal setup running off a more powerful server

Rob.

Tom Peck wrote:

> Hi Rob
>
> When you say 'Pentium with 64MB memory' do you mean Pentium first
> generation 75Mhz - 150Mhz machines?
>
> I have successfully setup Debian Woody on a Pentium 133Mhz - it's rather
> slow when running programs locally (like mozilla), but using it as a
> terminal type machine works fine when connected to a decent server
> system (mine connects to a P3 700, running Gnome2 + GDM).
>
> What sort of software will be needed on the systems?  I'd recommend
> Debian as a fairly easy to install low resource requiring distro.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I have been speaking with the '2020 Communications Trust'. They have
> > been given 400 PCs (mostly Pentium with 64MB memory) from the Wgtn City
> > Council to distribute to charitable organisations within Wellington.
> >
> > A problem they have is that this PCs often come without the MS licences
> > and to pay for them is not an option. The would prefer to investigate
> > putting open source software onto these machines so that they are 
> usable
> > by the non-profit orgs and then they don't have to worry about being
> > audited.
> >
> > I have suggested that this could be a project for the WellyLUG members
> > to come up with a solution. Due to the age/power of the machines 
> loading
> > RH7.3 and cranking up Gnome/Nautilus is not going to be viable. 
> There is
> > also the question of ongoing support and training which will need to
> > have answers.
> >
> > If we are interested in taking on this challenge the 2020
> > representitives will come to the next WellyLUG meeting.
> >
> > Your ideas/comments will be well recieved.
> >
> > Thanks, Rob.
> >
> >
> >
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