hi all, thanks for the responses. what about a core 2 duo for the 15-20 machines?
specifically, i'm thinking about this one... http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bedw42h&s=bsd&fb=1 which is on sale from dell. i could upgrade from the 1.86 GHz to the 2.13 GHz pretty painlessly if it made sense for my use. i'm not familiar with raid and they offer a raid option. is that worth it? can an open source software solution work nearly as well? i was thinking that of setting up a nightly back up to the 2nd hd, but i don't really have any experience doing that or setting up and working with raid. i would think the former would be easier to implement. i will definitely have a GB connection between the server and the switch. tia... oei ----- Original Message ---- From: francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:54:09 PM Subject: Re: Server Suggestion Request Le samedi 28 juin 2008 à 14:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > my son's school has computer lab with 15 p3s with 128mb ram. they'd > like to get a terminal server (running edubuntu) that could support > their lab. ideally, they'd like to get a server that would allow the > terminals to all run flash or all run gcompris. > > what kind of terminal server specs am i looking at? would a quad core > 2 GHz with 4mb of ram get it done? Usualy, you must allow 512 Mb for the server itself plus 512 Mb per group of 7-10 clients. So, to run 15 client you'll need about 1,5 Gb and a quad core is more than good. But you have to take care about a gigabit network card and a switch with a gigabit port. The disk speed and reliability is also important : two SATA disks configured in RAID 1 could be fine. Regards, François -- 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
