On 4 March 2010 06:14, Michelle Konzack <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello, > > Am 2010-03-03 22:04:18, schrieb Giacomo Trovato: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm developing a system with Debian Edu Lenny for a primary school in > > Italy with 10 thin client Alix3d3. > > I want to install on the same machine the main server and the thin > > client server. > > What server do you suggest? > > Is it ok a 2.4GHz Xeon Quad-Core with 2 GB of ram? > > A 2500 Euro "Sun Fire X4100M2" with smallest CPU, 4 GByte of memory and > 3x SAS drives of 76 GByte would be enough... > > Giacomo, from my experience I would not recommend thin clients in primary school. I have 10 clients (some via 600, 256 - similar to the alix) on a quad core server with Gbps switch, and I had to disable sound and uninstall some apps (tux math and tux type) that I would like to use. Instead of spending money on a server, I would spend it on the clients and use them as diskless workstations. Buy whatever server you can find on Dell special offer web page (for example), or just use a fairly new PC. Then get clients with enough power to run flash by themselves. Even used PCs will work fine. cheers nigel
