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Adam Latham wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 22:34 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > >> Adam Latham wrote: >> >> >>>>> Unfortunately I only have one machine with a licensed copy of Windows on >>>>> there which is spare for the event. My other half wouldn't let me use >>>>> her laptop and I figured Windows 98 and NT 4 machines will be a bit too old. >>>>> >>>>> >>> Except, of course to showcase one of the 'Linux Lite' distros. DSL, >>> Puppy and Slax all work pretty well on my P3 500MHz 128Mb RAM heap, that >>> I use to play with as a file server (until I blow it up - regularly!) >>> >> The other problem I have at the moment is transport. I'm only just >> going to be able to get the one machine over there. >> >> >>> Might be worth a shot to demonstrate that you don't need a 2.4GHz DC >>> with 4Gb RAM to have a working PC? >>> >> Nah, I need at lead a quad core CPU ;-) >> >> 1 core for the OS, 3 cores for when flash goes belly up and starts >> hogging the CPU. >> >> Rob >> >> >> > lol! > > I was aiming the last bit towards the idea of engaging community groups, > who are self-funded and don't have a lot of cash. Lots of them depend > on 'donated' computers or 2nd+ handers. Maybe if we can demonstrate > that there are better options than Windoze 98, 2000, ME, XP for fairly > old machines, that won't cost them a bean, they may think about > swapping. > > Just a thought! > > Adam > > > hmm... Under the WEEE directive charities would be able to take 'disposed of equipment' and use it themselves... maybe there is a way in on that idea...?? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html