On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Steve Thomas wrote:
[I can't believe that people still think they're doing good by shipping old 486's to Africa -- but apparently its true. I recently donated some old Pentium II's to a charity, and they couldn't believe their luck.]
My Linux users group installs thin client computer labs for schools. We happily accept PIIs, but turn down 486s. We use PIIs and PIIIs as thin clients, removing the hard drives and installing bootable NIC cards, and connect them to a fast server running K12LTSP Linux. We can create a usable 30 client computer lab for $3000 or so, since the clients are all donations. Currently we're preparing clients for our first foreign lab, to be run by Peace Corps Volunteers in Western Samoa. If that works -- then perhaps Africa :) -- Karen Lofstrom Zora on DP