Make this an open source Christmas by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn -- Don't think of this as just a Christmas gift. Follow-up. Make certain this new account is serviced. See to it that workers there are trained, and that they train others. Toss in some old books on computer programming, either from your own library or from others.
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Yesterday, I installed Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) in an old Dell Optiplex that had a 10 Gig hard drive and 256 Megs of Ram. My state representative Monique D.Davis bought about twenty of these boxes from a suburban Chicago School that was upgrading its network so the OS had already been removed. Some of them only have 128 Megs, so I'll either have to go with an older version of Ubuntu or use a different distribution, but I really like Drake. Haven't tried the Eft but I've put in an order for the disks at http://shipit.ubuntu.org. I'm going to have to either do a lot of downloading or use GParted and do some imaging, since for reasons unknown my last order for disks was cancelled. Maybe I should hace used the community center's address, but I had no problems ordering to my home the first time around.
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