[ale] Help needed for a Non-Profit project - if not Linux thenwill go Windows

[jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu (Jonathan Glass (IBB))]

I forgot to mention the Kickstart HOWTO if you want more info on
Kickstart.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/KickStart-HOWTO.html

Jonathan Glass

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 17:50, Greg wrote:
>  I am helping out at a non-profit called Free Bytes
> (http://www.freebytes.org) that is providing support to the Atlanta Food
> Bank for an initial order of 30 computers - out of a possible future order
> of several hundred.  We are looking for an OS that can be installed on
> machines that will immediately dial up via modem to an ISP, have a web
> browser come up so folks can use a web based form for ordering food
> shipments, and the box must be configured so that it will not allow the user
> to get to a command line or otherwise play with the machine.  A working
> model must be done by this week and not only is there a time crunch, but
> since the first distro we went with (a Slackware derived version) failed
> miserably (only 1 successful install out of 4 machines and even then the
> modem is almost unconfigurable). We need a solid victory or Windows 98 will
> be installed on all machines (it is an all or nothing project - only 1 OS
> will be selected).  MS Windows is our back-up if a Open Source solution
> cannot be found.
> 
> Here are the HW requirements:
> 	RAM:	64 MG (sorry, we have little ram and the machines have varying slots)
> 	HD:	1 GB is the lowest size, we can put other hard drives in the PCs (all
> less than 1 GB, though)
> 	CPU:	Pentium 133 MHz
> 	Modem:	We need an easily customizable interface so we can easily customize
> it.
<snip>
> 
> 	TIA,
> 
> 	Greg Canter


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