[Workshops] FOSS4G 2008 workshop (and school GIS) PC specs - urgent reply required

[Gavin Fleming]

Hi all

 

I'm in discussions with a PC supplier (www.sahara.co.za
<http://www.sahara.co.za/> ) who might be able to give us a purchase
price to compete with our hire costs. We need to wrap this up ASAP else
we'll be placing a hire order on Friday. 

 

Primary Use: FOSS4G 2008 workshops and labs.

End use: OSGeo / GISSA donate the PCs to South African schools for GIS
education as part of GISSA's 'Adopt-a-school' program. In the Western
Cape this would be in collaboration with Khanya. 

 

Please urgently send me 'minimum - nice-to-have' specs for the PCs if
you don't agree with mine:

 

Basics: Ethernet, USB, mouse, keyboard, DVD-ROM

 

RAM: 1GB - 2GB

Processor: 32 bit, Pentium dual core 3.5MHz - ?

Video card: 256MB - ?

Screen size: 17" CRT - 19" LCD

 

OS and Software to be imaged:

OS: Buy / hire XP licences (Professional?). If we hire them we could set
them up with Ubuntu and a full GIS and education stack afterwards. But
XP is necessary for the conference to handle the variety of Wndows and
non-Windows apps being used. 

VMWare

OSG4W

OpenOffice

Google Earth

Gcc

Python

...

 

Anything else?

 

Gavin 

 

 

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