On 10/03/06, Yudhvir Singh Sidhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Starting a one room school in my village - teaching small grade children > (girls) in basic subjects such as English, Math, Punjabi and Computers. I > am considering LTSP. The school is about a couple hundred feet from my > cousin's house where I am preciving to put the server. The students will > be about 25, I am assuming I will put a client on each desk. and there > will be a library with about 5 more clients. I want to run a cable from > home to school - is this the best way? Now the confusion:
Good intention and best approach. Assuming from your name and Punjabi language you are looking at a location in Punjab? I am in Delhi and can help out if you need inputs or get your hands dirty with a test LTSP setup. Server in a house nearby sound okay as long as CAT5 distances are respected. Put a switch in the school and then the network of LTSP desktops. I am not aware of Gig ethernet distance but would make sense if that is feasible to have a Gig cable running to the school and then 100mbps network from switch. > a. It gets hot and we are not planning anything more than ceiling fans. > We are talking unbearable heat for someone who lives in the West. And > during monsoon season, lots of humidity. What hardware can handle this > kind of environment? Oh did I mention there are brown-outs everyday > (scheduled)? I am considering PV panels on the building and for the server. Try to keep to P-1/2's instead of thin clients which do not have fans. I have seen these used in pretty rugged situations and whats more second hands are available pretty cheap. > b. PV would lead me to select systems consuming low power and > applications which do not tax the server. Hook up with LCD monitors. > c. SInce I am considering 30 clients, we are looking at 6.7K for LTSP > TERM 140 from diskless workstations. I will go with that if there is > reliability and stability in these boxes. Anyone want to suggest anything > more robust? See above. However power consideration may mean Term 140 a better solution. Locally some thin clients are avaiable but are horribly priced. > d. Is there anyone out there doing this stuff in India? What do you think from my responses ;-) > e. Is there any LTSP source in India? I'll be out of my element and don't > know any geek or supply house out there. Everything I will have I would > have taken from here. Save your self trouble. All hardware is locally available and need not be trucked in. PV also can be sourced but not aware of pricing issues here vs. USA. If you need site help let us see what can be worked out. HTH -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
