On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Shlomo, I suggest that if you have a decent-sized disk (>8GB), you simply > tell these guys: take a distribution (my personal favorite is Redhat 8 or 9, > but pick whatever you like) and install EVERYTHING.
Disk space is not a problem. This monster should have plenty of disk space. > Installing everything in Redhat 8 or 9 will take you 3-4 GB of disk space. > And you won't be sorry you did it, because you never know in advance what > you'll need (assuming you don't have much Linux experience). If you'll need > more disk space later you could remove some packages later - but that is > much easier than adding packages later (the typical scenario: someone installs > a "minimal" install and every day remembers another package which he forgot > to ask for). And believe me, if you get a large new disk, you'll never get > around to deleting packages :) Interesting idea. I suppose why not. > > 5. Hebrew support > > fonts > > latex (or, should I say, ivritex) > > Hebrew in GUI (read and write) > > Hebrew in web browsers (read and write) > > OpenOffice > > This will not come 100% automatically in any existing distribution, but > on modern distributions the Hebrew support is half-decent out of the box > and if you'll have problems you can ask about them in ivrix-discuss or > linux-il. Redhat comes with OpenOffice, but not the Hebrew version. > > This server should service not only clients from the web, but also users which > > will use it for development in the above technologies. > > Have you given thought as to how exactly users will be using all those > GUI stuff?? Through X Windows? If so, it will only be useful inside the > Technion. The X related stuff will indeed be used only through X. Most users will be actually at the technion. The rest need mostly http access and singles need simple ssh/sftp sessions. -- Shlomo Yona [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
