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Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor



On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 08:15 +0000, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:18 PM, John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> wrote:
> > Richard Owlett writes:
> >>
> >> Is there any reason that a Ubuntu version Mint would be any more
> >> suitable than a custom install of Debian
> >
> > No.
> 
> Yes, ease of installation.

pro Ubuntu, con Debian

As mentioned before, *buntu repositories provide collections of
educational software that is sorted regarding to the age of the
children. The same software likely is available for Debian too, but I
don't know if there are meta packages available too, build with the
knowledge of teachers, to fit to children of different ages.

pro Debian, con Ubuntu

Since the OP will use it for donated computers, it might be important,
that Debians packages are compiled to run on older CPUs.


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