Hi,
Does anyone know organizations or projects that recycle old hardware and install free software?
I need some contacts. It does't have to be from Europe.
Thanks, Novica
2009/10/29 Novica Nakov nnovica@gmail.com:
Hi,
Does anyone know organizations or projects that recycle old hardware and install free software?
Hey, I know "Dont dump that" (http://www.dontdumpthat.org.uk/) but Iam not sure if they install free software.
Best,
Novica Nakov wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know organizations or projects that recycle old hardware and install free software?
I need some contacts. It does't have to be from Europe.
Thanks, Novica
The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF) used to do this. Look around the website: http://www.hosef.org
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On 10/30 00:27, Novica Nakov wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know organizations or projects that recycle old hardware and install free software?
There is a small organization in Sweden that does exactly that. They collect computers and reinstalls and fix them and then give them away to economically weak organizations or individuals that do not have a computer (or needs to upgrade).
Their homepage (sorry, all in swedish i think) is at http://www.friit.se
I need some contacts. It does't have to be from Europe.
You can use the form below (sorry, long url) to contakt Jörgen Qvartsenklint (project leader).
http://www.friit.se/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=3%3...
Regards,
Marcus
Novica Nakov nnovica@gmail.com writes:
Does anyone know organizations or projects that recycle old hardware and install free software?
Computerbank URL:http://www.computerbank.org.au/ operates out of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
They are a volunteer-based organisation that ressurect old computers, install GNU/Linux onto them, and make them available for distribution by charitable organisations, especially in the Oceania region.
I used to maintain a list on http://www.opencollector.org/freecomputers.html
It hasn't been updated for a while, but a proportion of them should be valid still (and of course any feedback/new entries would be welcome :-)
Graham
Novica Nakov wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know organizations or projects that recycle old hardware and install free software?
I need some contacts. It does't have to be from Europe.
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graham ha scritto:
I used to maintain a list on http://www.opencollector.org/freecomputers.html
It hasn't been updated for a while, but a proportion of them should be valid still (and of course any feedback/new entries would be welcome :-)
Graham
Hi Graham,
I think it's a really good job.
Some thoughts:
the system is called GNU/Linux and not Linux as it says on that page.
You could correct the mistake and link the gnu.org page.
The "Tiny Linux Distribution" (which is a Tiny GNU/Linux distribution) is not on the list of the GNU project fully free software GNU/Linux distributions.
This could mean it includes non free software.
I think it would be great if you could recommend people a fully free software distribution instead.
Here they are:
http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
Thanks.
Graziano wrote:
The "Tiny Linux Distribution" (which is a Tiny GNU/Linux distribution) is not on the list of the GNU project fully free software GNU/Linux distributions.
This could mean it includes non free software.
I think it would be great if you could recommend people a fully free software distribution instead.
Here they are:
It's a good idea. However, as far as I know none of these are specifically targetted at old systems with little memory and small disks as Tinylinux is (http://tiny.seul.org/it/). In fact apart from tiny linux the only other distribution I know of aimed at very small or old systems is Puppy linux, which is also not 'guaranteed' 100% free.
I know that there are many gnu/linux distributions which can no longer even be installed on very old computers because of their size and/or distribution method; can you recommend any of the 100% free distributions for this purpose?
Thanks Graham
Thanks.
Novica Nakov nnovica@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know organizations or projects that recycle old hardware and install free software?
Bristol Wireless Community Co-operative sells recycled computers from 30 pounds in partnership with Byteback Computer Recycling. See http://www.bristolwireless.net/wiki/index.php/ComputersForSale
Curiously, BW are a bit stricter than our co-op on supporting only free software and the computers come with debian GNU/Linux, but they still advertise it as Linux sometimes, like on that page.
Hope that helps,