Looking for BEST DISTRO for kids digital art exhibition using old PCs
I'm a school teacher with a teeny bit of linux experience (setup K12LTSP at a school 6 years ago).
I need a LINUX DISTRO of some sort for an EXHIBITION of Primary School DIGITAL ART. - I have 12 old optima workpro PCs - need something light - UBUNTU gives me the black screen after it boots up - puppy works but there are other issues like... - need to have apps start automatically on boot as gallery won't be open everyday but people can view screens thru large window. I have already figured out how to wake PCs via BIOS setting. - needs gxine or vlc to play video loops - image viewer with slideshow option - tux paint for kids to play with on days that gallery is open - firefox a bonus but not essential - PCs won't have internet connection or networking capabilities at gallery so are stand alone - oh and lastly, the exhibition opens in less than two weeks so I am a bit frantic. ANY SUGGESTIONS? |
Can you give details of the machines you have...that is:
* CPU Make/Model * RAM * HDD * Graphics Controller For what you're trying to do, I really think you'll struggle with such old PC's, since it will be very processor intensive and the latest distro's are not built for old processors (I think your machines' would have Intel Pentium III if I'm not mistaken)... |
I ran CPU-Z and here are some random details... hope it helps
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz Chipset ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Northbridge Intel i845G rev. B1 Southbridge Intel 82801DB (ICH4) rev. 02 Memory Type DDR Memory Size 512 MBytes Memory Frequency 134.7 MHz (3:4) Memory SPD ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DIMM # 1 SMBus address 0x50 Memory type DDR Manufacturer (ID) (0000000000000000) Size 512 MBytes Max bandwidth PC2700 (166 MHz) Processors Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Processor 1 ID = 0 Number of cores 1 (max 1) Number of threads 1 (max 1) Name Intel Celeron Codename Northwood Specification Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz Package (platform ID) Socket 478 mPGA (0x2) CPUID F.2.9 Display Adapters ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Display adapter 0 Display name \\.\DISPLAY1 Name Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller Memory size 64 MB DMI ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DMI BIOS vendor Award Software International, Inc. version 6.00 PG date 12/19/2003 DMI System Information manufacturer Optima |
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Try a LiveCD from 'The LiveCD List'. Setup for that class of machine should not be a hassle. I prefer 'Slackware' and think the stable release of 13.1 would work fine. Addition of packages for your needs is easily done. :hattip: The above links and others can be found at 'Slackware-Links'. More than just SlackwareŽ links! |
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@debstar Depending on your level of skill with Linux there are many choices where there are Live CD's- check out www.distrowatch.com for a listing of the more popular distro's. |
You could also optionally build your own
I can show you how if interested and Debian has a Debian Jr platform http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/ and its quite easy to make a livecd/usb thats installable to hdd using a combo of live-helper and remastersys So, there are also a few distros made for kids too Please post back if you need help with anyhting:) |
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Sure, a LiveCD can be used but that is a good means to test drive something. The OP queried therefore I presented my suggestion(s). :hattip: |
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Bug #26345: [i845G] CPU/GPU incoherency, still shows Medium Critical. Bug #27187: [i855GM] gtt chipset flush is not cache coherent, now shows Medium Normal. If all else fails, and it needs to be soon, you may need to use an older distro. I know slackware 12.2 works fine with the 845G, and there are still quite a few packages out there that can be found for it as well. Though, I don't know about any other distro's. |
Thanks for all the suggestions. I think an older distro might be the answer. I'm going to hunt down the fedora/redhat disks I used back on 2004 and see if I have more success with these. At the moment I am trying out "crunchbang" which loads OK from CD but is still slow. Might be better after an install.
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SUCCESS!!!! Installed Crunchbang and it boots up fairly quickly PLUS it has VLC and I've figured out how to make it start automatically and play the short videos I have on a loop. I'm well chuffed!! It does exactly what I want. Will install old fedora on the others for tux paint.
Used these links... http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howt...start_programs http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html Thanks for the help and support! |
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