Hi folks, Well, as I was saying earlier, I'm itching to set up a thin client lab in my computers course; I was being held back by lack of funds to buy a real server. Now it looks like we may have found someone with some cash to buy us one... so I was wondering what exactly I should ask for. THe tuxlabs documentation suggests: - 2 gig ram - SCSI drives - gigabit ethernet (also gigabit ethernet on the switch, which I don't have -- we only have donated 3Com 3300 swtiches, which are nice but all 10/100 (far as I know, anyway).
Already, this is geting tough -- e.g. we don't have the gigabit switch... So I am wondering how to prioritize the various requirements. So if folks don't mind, maybe y'all could suggest minimum and (within reason) optimal configurations for a server, including things like: - what kind lf CPU (does it matter if it's 64-bit? is a dual-processor machine - which about doubles the minimum price, I think - vastly more desirable?) - how much and what kind of RAM? - How big a deal does SCSI make? Does SATA, or SATA RAID, help make IDE performance closer to SCSI? - is gigabit ethernet an absolute requirement? - any other hardware config questions I've failed to notice... thanks loads, again. matt ------------------------------------------- Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] History Department, University of Toronto (416) 978-2094 -------------------------------------------- The following addresses are for you if you're an evil spambot: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
