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[John Bridleman]

* Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org) wrote:
> >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.

Odds are I wouldn't find a dual processor box laying around. I'd more than likely have to build one with the idea that I would keep it if the project didn't pan out. I've got a case and I've been just kinda looking around at motherboards.

The workstations that the school has to donate to the project are Pentium 75 with 16MB ram. I know, but that's what I have to start with. I could increase the ram in a couple to "prove" that the project would work. Is that enough machine for a client? I'd skip Star Office and just set it up to surf if I had to. My original idea was to just get it in and then let them decide to "upgrade".

> 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.

No, but they do have a Novell Network so it would be nice if it worked in that setting. If not, I might be able to hook it up before the Novell. They have a Free-BSD box handling their web page connected in front of the Novell.
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John Bridleman / john@bridleman.org