If someone was clever enought to setup free juno dial-up accounts on linux......<br>Kids could still use pc's for educational purposes, but there again, the cost is another $40 for a printer.<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Kline</b> <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Isn't the bigger cost Internet access?<br><br>I bought a $50 junker at VC Tech Source.<br>1GHz processor. 512MB of RAM. Plenty<br>good for surfing and e-mail. So the cost<br>of a machine is not too much of an issue.<br>
<br> -Bob<br><br><br>On 10/20/06, Jared Upton <<a href="mailto:jared77@gmail.com">jared77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I was thinking of the possibilty of creating a non profit organization to<br>> collect and redistribute used PCs to the less forunate school childen,
<br>> familys, etc. To avoid costs we could install Eubuntu on all the machines.<br>> This would also address the nasty spyware problems. I have been conisdering<br>> this awhile and then came across this article today on
<a href="http://digg.com">digg.com</a><br>> <a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193">http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193</a><br>> Any comments on the feasibilty of this would be greatly appreciated. I am
<br>> also new to the area so something similar may in place that I am not aware<br>> of.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> grlug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">
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