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.  
<br><br>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.&nbsp; I bring it back up from time to time but with little success.
<br><br>One of the schools [that I know of] did start putting Ubuntu on some machines
thanks to Carl Strickland, another student and their teacher.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; I do not know the current stae of that project.&nbsp; 
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