I do volunteer at AZStRUT (Atizona Students Recycling Used Technology).  We
generally put MS Windows of some version on machines.  Most commonly it is
W98 SE because we have a license to do that.  Sometimes it is a newer
version up to XP Pro where we have a legitimate source.

Less commonly we have put Linux on machines and have tried to convince the
powers that be to let us do that more often but they tell us the end users
don't like that.  I bring it back up from time to time but with little
success.

One of the schools [that I know of] did start putting Ubuntu on some
machines thanks to Carl Strickland, another student and their teacher.  Carl
and the other student had re-mastered a CD to have a number of functions
useful to the recycling including installing a fixed subset of Ubuntu.  I do
not know the current stae of that project.

On 11/19/06, JT Moree <moreejt@pcxperience.com> wrote:
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> Just curious
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