I'm working on a plan for countries like Belize where hardware and even shipping are very expensive. I'd like some feedback on this plan as it develops.
I have used LTSP with about 16 workstations in our lab this past semester, and it has been great. We now want to add about 24 workstations and will later expand to two labs, library, administration and staff computer areas. I am considering either BookPCs or ThinkNICs for our purchase in June or July. Later we may move to the VIA Eden type mini-ITX whenever someone begins producing a reasonably priced case for them. The plan is for one application server for each 11-16 workstations, and we will use the server itself as a workstation. By not spreading the apps servers too thin, we can have some redundancy, use regular (inexpensive) IDE drives, etc. We'll have one home server that will not be used as a workstation, but we will backup its info on apps servers so if it goes out we can quickly replace it with an apps server. We will be using mostly OpenOffice.org and a browser for web-based email and WWW. The home server and the apps servers will have 1 to 1.5 GB of ram, and the fastest Athlon we can get for just over $100 US. We'll also take one old computer to be a separate firewall computer, and it will remain online 24/7. We'll collect our email on it, and then fetch it to the home server via UUCP, or ? The idea is to be able to buy two apps servers and 22 workstations including monitors with a total budget of about $12K US. We will use the same basic plan to incorporate legacy computers as we come across them. Any comments, suggestions? -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
