Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> 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.
Educational Linux distributions:
Debian --> Skolelinux
Ubuntu --> Edubuntu (if it stilll exists)
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