[UCIMC-Tech] IMC lab computers - anyone keeping em? If not, may I install ubuntu on them?

[Stuart Levy]

Is anyone feeling responsible for the IMC lab computers - the two HPs 
which say they were donated from Parkland?   Or better, does anyone have 
a plan for them?

They seem to have un-bootable copies of Windows on them at the moment.   
I don't know whether there's any valuable software on the windows side.

If nobody has a better plan, I'd be game to wipe and install Ubuntu 
(14.04 LTS, say) on them.

Why:  Jim Tippett had mentioned that it would be nice to have a closer 
place than the U of I campus library to burn CDs for his WRFU program.   
I thought, Why not the lab computers?

In order to actually do what Jim had in mind, we'd need a CD burner 
too.   Right now both have read-only drives.   I'd buy & donate an 
internal drive or two if someone else would install the hardware.

But I'd be willing to set up Linux in any case, with say a guest-account 
(no history, no saved files after logout).