MetalheadGautham
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Hi Guys!
I am on a project to build the perfect distro for common Indian schools with low end computers as an educational tool. I need the distro to fulfill the following needs:
1. Be able to teach anyone about the internals of computing
2. Have an easy to learn commandline mode
3. Be easy to manage by a single administrator who handles 20 systems
4. Run on light systems - meaning 2GHz P4 or 2.4GHz celerons or even lower, with 256MB of DDR1 333MHz RAM and monitors similar to Samsung Samatron 15".
5. Comfortably intorduce kids to computing at an early age and get them hooked on to linux
6. Be able to last on the same configuration for a few years
7. Run Turbo C++ 3.0 on Wine
8. Run OpenOffice.org, while not running anything else
I am doing this for the Jawaharlal Nehru Science Exibition 2008 under the category "Educational Technology". Last year I made it to the nationals, and this year I hope to do something similar or better, since its my last year at school and I want to return something to the set of institutions which made me what I am.
I have time to decide on the config till today 6.30AM and download and set it up and create a Live DVD or HDD Image.
I have a 5400RPM 40GB IDE HDD, of which I intend to use not more than 20GB.
I have been thinking of Arch Linux and Zenwalk. What do you say guys ?
I am thinking of making two versions, one with arch and IceDE, my own basic idea of a DE based on IceWM which has basic easy to use apps like Sea Monkey, EmelFM, DFM, irssi, nano, xine, etc.
The second will be a full fledged Xfce environment with Educational Apps like Celestina, Stellarium, Periodic Tabe Of Elements, other misc educational tools, OpenOffice.org, etc.
So I am considering arch for the former and zen for the later. I plan to showcase only the former for the first round on the comming saturday (I am sure that, with the current competition level, and my influence, this is more than enough to pass and make it to regionals).
Please suggest me good configurations for both. And I also need some good free encyclopedias for offline browsing I can use. I remember NucleusKore offering something for sale which was an abriged wikipedia. Can I get something like that ?
PS: would it be a good idea to include an Impress based presentation as a part of this project ?
I am on a project to build the perfect distro for common Indian schools with low end computers as an educational tool. I need the distro to fulfill the following needs:
1. Be able to teach anyone about the internals of computing
2. Have an easy to learn commandline mode
3. Be easy to manage by a single administrator who handles 20 systems
4. Run on light systems - meaning 2GHz P4 or 2.4GHz celerons or even lower, with 256MB of DDR1 333MHz RAM and monitors similar to Samsung Samatron 15".
5. Comfortably intorduce kids to computing at an early age and get them hooked on to linux
6. Be able to last on the same configuration for a few years
7. Run Turbo C++ 3.0 on Wine
8. Run OpenOffice.org, while not running anything else
I am doing this for the Jawaharlal Nehru Science Exibition 2008 under the category "Educational Technology". Last year I made it to the nationals, and this year I hope to do something similar or better, since its my last year at school and I want to return something to the set of institutions which made me what I am.
I have time to decide on the config till today 6.30AM and download and set it up and create a Live DVD or HDD Image.
I have a 5400RPM 40GB IDE HDD, of which I intend to use not more than 20GB.
I have been thinking of Arch Linux and Zenwalk. What do you say guys ?
I am thinking of making two versions, one with arch and IceDE, my own basic idea of a DE based on IceWM which has basic easy to use apps like Sea Monkey, EmelFM, DFM, irssi, nano, xine, etc.
The second will be a full fledged Xfce environment with Educational Apps like Celestina, Stellarium, Periodic Tabe Of Elements, other misc educational tools, OpenOffice.org, etc.
So I am considering arch for the former and zen for the later. I plan to showcase only the former for the first round on the comming saturday (I am sure that, with the current competition level, and my influence, this is more than enough to pass and make it to regionals).
Please suggest me good configurations for both. And I also need some good free encyclopedias for offline browsing I can use. I remember NucleusKore offering something for sale which was an abriged wikipedia. Can I get something like that ?
PS: would it be a good idea to include an Impress based presentation as a part of this project ?