Geeks, nonprofits parlay community at Penguin Day (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

NewsForge attends Penguin Day. "The intent of the event, hosted by a group of Portland computer reuse raiders known as FreeGeek, was to find how nonprofits such as Multiple Sclerosis Society, Child Aid, Water Watch, and others can benefit from open source software and how the programming community and provider community can join their efforts, which are similar in ethos and economy."

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Geeks, nonprofits parlay community at Penguin Day (NewsForge)

Posted Jul 27, 2004 23:14 UTC (Tue) by simon_kitching (guest, #4874) [Link]

Does anyone have information on the OS FreeGeek installs on their recycled computers? They say they use a "modified debian" distribution, but provide no other details.

I am in the process of trying to rebuild a P3 300MHz with 64MBytes ram for use by my parents, but can't find a setup that both runs reasonably and looks windows-ish (they're used to Win95). I presume FreeGeek have already solved this one, and it would be interesting to know what they use.

I've tried ICEWM and XFCE, and certainly the standard installs of these don't cut it.

Oh - and congrats to all involved in the Penguin Day. Sounds like a mighty fine idea.