Hope this is the right forum :)

Am helping a small charity to set up their first office (3-4 people). They are expecting to get donations of used equipment (laptops etc.) from some local organizations. As my hands on experience with PCs is mostly domestic I thought I would ask for comments on my intentions.

To minimize costs and remove licensing headaches I am thinking that they should run some flavour of Linux on the laptops. Fingers crossed that I can get one with suitable drivers to work on the laptops they are given. I only have a little Linux (Ubuntu) experience but am hoping that will be enough as its only a basic setup.

For software & files sharing they'll use Google Apps, keeping everything safely up in the cloud. No local storage.

Their telco will no doubt provide a modem/router with 1-2 ethernet ports with their bband package. I can plug a multi-function printer directly into that if they can't get a wireless one.

I'm avoiding wires and desktops because the office is in a remote area and I'm concerned about burglary. With laptops at least they can lock them away out of sight every night.

So potentially the main hurdles will be;

- getting Linux drivers for whatever printer/scanner they get
- getting a solid basic install of Ubuntu or similar on whatever laptops they get

Any other pitfalls to watch out for? Thanks in advance.