Did you know, that for educational entities, Microsoft offers free licenses for 98, 2000, and XP for donated computers.
You merely have to apply, send a letter letting Microsoft know where the computers came from, and they will send you a volume licensing agreement, and for $10... the install CD.
I’ve got nothing against Linux, but when you average 1 technician for ever 1000 users, which is par for the course for education, you go, with what you know. And Linux, is not that foolproof, and is not user friendly for novice users.
Give me a clean load of 98SE on a PII 400 mhz with 128mb of ram, and I’ll show you a machine that zips through web browsing, and word processing programs, faster than any open source kludge patched to the hilt to “fit into the system”.
Give me a clean load of 98SE on a PII 400 mhz with 128mb of ram, and I’ll show you a machine that zips through web browsing, and word processing programs, faster than any open source kludge patched to the hilt to “fit into the system”.
You may want to dip your feet a bit into the open source world. I can think of five modern distros off the top of my head that are far superior to Win98, and would run perfectly on the machine you spec'd.