Quoting Faheem Mitha (2016-09-20 18:30:48) > On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, yogesh powar wrote: > > Friend of mine and I would like to donate some of our > > effort/money/time providing computers at a primary school in a > > village in Goa. > > > We were thinking of having Raspberry Pi -3 with Input/Output > > devices. But software/OS, we were thinking of having Gnu/Linux. [...] > Raspberry Pis are useless machines as computers. IMO their main > advantage is that they are small. You'd be better off buying second > hand computers, I think. It would help if you could expand a bit what you have in mind with "Input/Output devices". If you mean hooking up multiple screens and multiple keyboards/mice to a single computer then I agree you will likely not get very far with tinker-grade ARM-based devices. ...but be cautious also about how to involve second-hand computers: They might be cheap to _acquire_, but depending on how you plan to _help_ others, the true price also includes maintenance cost - both money for spare parts, time spent replacing parts, and time lost due to systems being down while being fixed! I certainly find it relevant to consider second-hand options - sustainable computing has been my main interest for 10-15 years! - just beware of that common trap of thinking that used = cheap. There's more to the equation than that, and since you wanna do it not for yourself but for others, _they_ get bitten (not you) if you calculate wrong. I wish you the best of luck - sounds like an exciting challenge! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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