Make a school computer lab for free with ?broken? computers and ...

By Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing

Elizabeth on ifixit tells us the heartwarming story of Robert Litt, a teacher at ASCEND, ?a small arts K-8 school in the Alameda County School District.? Litt needed a computer lab. His school had no budget, So he called around to local businesses and individuals and collected all their ?broken? computers (refusing anything made before 2002 or with less than 512MB of RAM) and installed Ubuntu GNU/Linux on them. What he got was a free, robust computer lab. Litt says ??Discarded computers are our most wasted educational resource,? and that we are ?starving in the midst of plenty.?

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