<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Tom Roche <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tom_Roche@pobox.com" target="_blank">Tom_Roche@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":oi" class="" style="overflow:hidden">Randal Hale Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:17:54 -0400[2]<br>
<span class="">> Ms Keith (on this list as of last night and cc'd) has a lab but it is quickly going out of date with regards to proprietary software. My wish has been to replace everything with QGIS - GIS is GIS.<br>
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</span>And OS[3] are OS, so maximize the utility of the<br>
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> "older computers" at schools [being used] for learning<br>
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and slap a Linux on them. The OSGeo wiki points to some bundles, including (e.g.) DebianGIS[4], Enterprise Linux GIS[5], and UbuntuGIS[6] (of which, IIUC, the latter is the most active).<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And sure enough, there are Linux distributions designed to work well on (very) low-end hardware, for example Lubuntu [1] and Xubuntu [2].<br><br> [1] <a href="http://lubuntu.net/">http://lubuntu.net/</a><br> [2] <a href="http://xubuntu.org/">http://xubuntu.org/</a><br></div></div>