Hi:
I am a volunteer with a local non-profit organization, Toy Time, intending to improve on what we do for kids who get our computers by switching to pure Linux boxes. The objective would be to, instead of just giving these kids an old PC box with windows, we would teach them how to assemble their own boxes, load Linux *and* teach them Basic.
Because we get more than enough donations of old computers, our hardware costs in the past have been zero. However, giving kids an obsolete box and then expecting them be enthused with such a gift seems too much to ask and is thus not very productive from the standpoint of growing an upcoming IT generation. Therefore we would like to switch our program to equipping those boxes with identical MicroATX motherboards with AMD Athlon-64 single core processors and ATI chipsets. I picked this combination because it is fairly modern and I am expecting the price that we will have to pay to be affordable at around $20 each.
However, while I can find many affordable ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 boards that have LinuxBIOS support, they are ATX, not MicroATX and they do not have the ATI chipset.
What are the chances of someone on this group jumping on this to make LinuxBIOS work on those specs?
I would be willing, actually it would be my preference, to buy a few of these boards and ship them to the volunteer.
I am also open to discussing and considering alternatives as long as you don't try to talk me out of LinuxBIOS because I look at that few seconds boot as something these kids need as a show-off against their more affluent peers.
Henry Keultjes Mansfield Ohio USA Direct 419-525-1111
Please try to use mcp55 base MB...
if sth is too cheap, it mean some problem there.
YH
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