Gavin, Iam very excited, as I got the go-ahead and have ordered the parts for the server for our local school.
I selected a simple graphics card, which I assume is enough. I checked the ubuntuusers.de hardware list, where it appeared to work properly. I hope all arrives this week, so I can spend the weekend to put everything together and document it as I promised. btw: is anybody interested to get a documentation/tutorial from A to Z? so screenprints, list of parts, setup, etc. the other thing I thought about was to install the 64bit version of edubuntu on the server. would that be something you recommend to get additional performance out of the system. or - taking possible problems - would it be better to stay with 32 bit? would there be a limitation on the client side, if I have a 64 bit server running? rgds, uwe Quoting Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Uwe Geercken wrote: > >> actually I do not need a grafic card on the server but I though it >> would be good to have a cheap basic one, just in case I would want to >> work on the server or use an attached beamer or so. > > You definitely need _a_ graphic card, I just don't think you need an > expensive one -- particularly not if it's going to require you to run a > proprietary driver. I imagine there may be a basic one built-in on the > motherboard but perhaps not. > > The first review I found of that card suggested it was £300 which seems a > lot. On reflection, I can now see cards by that name for £30 so I'm not > clear where that came from :-) > >> to your other point. can you recommend a brand of raid controllers >> that will work fine? what about the disk. any basic recommendations >> for it (brand/size)? > > These are worth a read: > > http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html > http://linas.org/linux/raid.html > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID > > http://ashtech.net/~syntax/blog/archives/53-Data-Scrub-with-Linux-RAID-or-Die.html > > Personally, I mostly use linux's software raid (also called md). Compared > with a cheap RAID controller, I'd say you'd be better off with md. > However, a good hardware RAID controller which > > - has battery backed buffers (little RAM modules and a watch battery) on > it > - has proper monitoring tools on linux so it can tell you when a disk > fails > > is probably better. This may not be cheap though. I'm not up-to-date > enough to recommend a controller I'm afraid. There is some debate over > whether hardware or software raid are more reliable. I doubt performance > will be an issue with 10 machines. > > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008696.html > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
