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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 occidental AT gmx.net wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a colleg living with an African. The man belongs to a parish family
> of Ghana so they collect in Europe old good things and send all to Ghana
> (bicycles, clothes, etc and old computers).

We set up 11 computers once to be sent to Africa (Eritrea) to be used with 
linux and a wordprocessor.  They had to have at least 250MB because the 
person setting them up only knew how to use a standard linux distribution, 
but 486s with 16MB RAM were accepted.  What are your hardware requirements 
for cpu speed, hard drive size, and amount of memory?

> For the old computers would Basic Linux perfect if it would be possible to
> setup it on the computer before sending with a lot of selected software for
>
> - educative purpose
> - students
> - home and small business office
>
> so that we can know in Europe when difficulties happen exactly which kind of
> programms we did give and how the computer is prepared for his new life.
>
> You will see that I did prepare on the forum a lot of systematic divisions
> giving more transparence to the information in such categories (educative
> purpose, students and home office).

I have not looked at your link yet.  Do people really use Interlingua?

A French speaking former list member had a site for Drinou Linux, based on 
Slackware 7.1, for which he compiled many programs, with everything in 
French.  Have you found that site?

> I would be happy for each help to give a information content to the forum. I
> suppose it will be important in a second time if the response is good to
> prepare the same forum on French because the half of Afrika speeks this
> language (and perhaps on Spanish to help the poor countries of South
> Amerika, or to adopt an international language like interlingue (ex
> occidental, the name of this email address) that all the occidental language
> speaker can understand without major difficulties without to need to learn
> it), but it is the next step. At this time we can begin with English, the
> prefered language in Ghana.
>
> You will find the completely new forum at http://LINUXsimple.forum.eu.tt
> and a just beginned home page at http://LINUXsimple.eu.tt
>
> (Concerning the home page, you will see that I did beginn with Puppy Linux.
> The reason is that I didn't know Basic Linux before only a few days... And I
> have a reason more: the author of Puppy Linux did allow me to use his text
> and to translate them into Interlingue, ex Occidental, and he did write an
> among of really highly educative text on Linux. Puppy Linux also is a really
> good choice for above purpose but it needs really more ressources as the old
> PCs and old processors can support. So I think that Basic Linux would be the
> best choice in the first time)
>
> I use an eMail-box at www.gmx.net because gmx gives
> - real pop3 email-address
> - 1 Gbyte volume
> - email add's to 10 Mbyte
> - gmx works with easy browser like "links"
>
> I often use the easy and light free browser "OffByOne" or OB1 from
> http://www.offbyone.com because
> - it works very good under all ms-windows (windows 3.1, 95, 98, me and I
> suppose XP)
>  (with an usual external scroll mouse driver)
> - it works in Wine!
> - it find enough place on a floppy and can start from floppy
> - after erasing the used directory on the hard disk there is no trace of it
> on the hard disk if you did work on a computer that not belong to you! So
> you are certain of full discretion!
> - you are certain that all unpleasant effects of Java (advertising etc.)
> will not be encountred because it is not able to handle with java!
>
> I like the rapidforum's: they are really full professional solutions with a
> lot possibilities.
> - depending of the choiced "skin" they use or don't use Java
> - I did take a skin completely without Java.
> - this skin work really good with the OB1 brower and with the Links browser
>
> I recommand you to download and start OB1 before you use the new forum.
>
> Please
>
> Kind regards
>
> François
>
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