[Inschool] Is this listserv alive?

[Adam Williams]

On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 13:02, John Bridleman wrote:
> * Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org) wrote:
> > If you have the "server" machine why not bring it to a KLUG newbie
> > meeting,  most of LTSP doesn't need to be setup on-site.  You could call
> > for a special meeting if you want to meet on site to setup the clients, 
> > but 98% of the work is on the server.  I don't have much free time,  but
> > I go to KLUG meetings.....
> 
>I'd have to round up a server. Without making me go to the LTSP 
>homepage - what's a reasonable machine configuration for an LTSP
>server? I'd like to be able to run Mozilla and possibly Star Office.

My box at home is a dual PII-300 with 256Mb of RAM.  It supports about
five total users, using Ximian GNOME, Nautilus, Galeon, Star Office 6.0,
and Evolution all the time + other apps like GNUCash.  Fast disk really
helps.

More RAM would be easy at todays prices,  but with everyone running the
same apps RAM seems to go quite a long way (only one copy of a shared
library is every really loaded).

All clients are 16bit 1024x768

The server is also running Squid, PostgreSQL, OpenLDAP, BIND, Kerberos V
KDC, NFSd, Samba (although it almost never gets used) and Sendmail.  You
probably wouldn't have some of those things on an LTSP server in a
school.